I think novelists are in the education business, really, but they're not teaching you times tables, they are teaching you responsiveness and morality and to make nuanced judgments. And really to just make the planet look a bit richer when you go out into the street.
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- Author's profession: Writer
- Nationality: british
- Born: August 25, 1949
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