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• I don't think writers choose their genre,the genre chooses us.I wrote out of a wish to create order out of disorder.The liking of pattern.(Interview with Jake Kerridge,Sep 2009)

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• If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. In no area of human experience are human beings more convinced that something better can be had if only they persevere.