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In some way there is no real life. It's always the story of your life that you're living.

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Nicholas Royle

I was interested in the ways that artists responded to totalitarianism - the Czech Jazz Section, Romanian absurdist theatre, Brecht's alienation effect. The anything-goes, anarchic qualities of jazz and Surrealism seemed to offer a way to cross some of the forbidden frontiers of Eastern Europe.

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Increasingly, those who used to teach and write critical or theoretical texts are writing fiction, poetry and so on; and kinds of texts are being produced that call for budding readers rather different from those who studied literature in the past.

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The idea that a student can write a sonnet or a novel without having a sound understanding about its history, and where it fits into literature as a whole, seems to me to be manifestly daft.

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I'm not trying to write cinematic novels, but I have been told several times that my style is cinematic.

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Belgium is a country with a split personality.

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I have no patience with up-themselves authors who complain about having to trail round a few bookshops signing stock.

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