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All history, of course, is the history of wars

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The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.

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The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form.

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The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction.

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There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

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