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A lot of people ask me, did debating help me as a writer, and I honestly don't know.
A lot of the time, I read something I've written, and I think, 'Well, that's competent. It's not exactly breaking any boundaries. It's not exactly transgressive. It's just a bunch of fake people in a room talking to each other. But maybe there's a value to that.'
As a reader with next to no knowledge of classical mythology, I approached 'The Aeneid' just as I would a contemporary poem or novel - and, despite my ignorance, I was rewarded with a rich and affecting portrait of, among other things, the memorably doomed love affair between Aeneas and Dido.
As a reader, I try to love all the literary forms equally, but I probably read novels most often.
Being shortlisted for the Swansea University International Dylan Thomas Prize is, of course, a real honour for me and my work. When I wrote 'Conversations with Friends,' it was hard for me to imagine the book even finding readers - so it's a huge privilege to find it judged alongside such exciting and innovative new writing. I'm very grateful.
Class is something that I think seriously about and try to organise my politics around. I think there are lots of novels that don't really engage with questions of class at all, and they get less conversation about issues of social privilege than I do. But it's better to try and talk about it and maybe fail.
Dialogue is the most fun to write. It's kind of like a tennis match.
Dominant and emerging forms of interpersonal communication have to find their way into literary language somehow - think of the epistolary novels of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Everyone has a life. I haven't had a particularly interesting one.
For me, watching Mohamed Salah play football is not unlike staring up at the stars and contemplating the vastness of the universe: it makes my own life seem nice and small.
I am not trying to speak for anyone else, never mind an entire generation. I don't even know what that means.
I can't help feeling that I am not a very important person, and being treated like one gives me strange feelings.
I couldn't quite get the hang of how to socialise as a teenager. I didn't really understand it.
I definitely don't aspire to writing that's 'timeless,' whatever that means.
I don't have any answers as to whether the Internet is a good or a bad thing, but it's certainly an important thing for the novel because novels are so much about communication, and when communication changes, the novel has to change.
I don't really believe in the idea of the individual.
I don't think of myself as busy because I don't even have to get dressed most days.
I feel like I could devote myself to far more important things than writing novels.
I find myself consistently drawn to writing about intimacy and the way we construct one another.
I gave myself the small task of writing honestly about the kind of life I knew. I believe there is some value in carrying out that task, however limited.
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