In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable eyes, who looks like an inchoate hump under the encrustations of live barnacle-commentaries, limpets and trailing weeds.

In England, everyone believes if you think, then you don't feel. But all my novels are about joining together thinking and feeling.

I'm not very interested in myself. I do have a deep moral belief that you should always look out at other things and not be self-centred.

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