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When You Write, You Write Out Of Your Best Self. Everything Else Drops Away.

Even When Things Are At Their Worst, There's A Little Voice In Your Head Saying, 'good Story!'

You Start At The Stupid End Of The Book, And If You're Lucky You Finish At The Smart End.

I Think, In A Written Novel, The Way In Which You Play With The Readers' Emotion Or The Way In Which You Engage The Readers' Emotions Can Be Very Indirect. You Could Come At It Through Irony Or Comedy, Etcetera, And You Could Capture People's Sympathies And Feelings Kind Of By Stealth If You Like.

If Terrorism Is To Be Defeated, The World Of Islam Must Take On Board The Secularist-humanist Principles On Which The Modern Is Based, And Without Which Their Countries' Freedom Will Remain A Distant Dream.