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The most successful scientists in the history of the world are those who posed the right questions

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Well, I like the rain before it falls.

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But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn into novels.

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But I have always - ever since The Accidental Woman - written novels about individuals attempting to make choices in the context of situations over which they have no control.

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Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more about other places, and other times, maybe it wouldn't.

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I was mainly in a state of nervousness while I wrote it - nervousness that it was far bigger and more complicated than anything Id attempted before, and that maybe my talent just wasnt up to it and the book would have to be abandoned, or would turn out not to work at all when it was finished.

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I like the idea of a big caesura between the narratives, a space which readers can fill in with their own speculative history.

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