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I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
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I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing ‘The Year of Living Biblically.’ That was kind of the point – to learn.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without
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Jesse James is like a Leonard Cohen song, I wanted to do something that was like a pop song.
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I have no aspirations of world domination through the pop charts. None at all.
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It will shock many - I've lived a full life and really enjoyed my time as a pop star.
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Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren't always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice.
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I'm young but I'm not stupid.
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I grew up with nothing, so whenever I got to where I could have something I felt like I needed to have everything I couldn't have when I was young.
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Stay close to the young... and a little rubs off.
