There was surely nothing to indicate at the time that such evidently small incidents would render whole dreams forever irredeemable..

We all live inside bodies that will deteriorate. But when you look at human beings, they're capable of very decent things: love, loyalty. When time i….

Maybe all of us at Hailsam had little secrets like that -- little private nooks created out of thin air where we could go off alone without fears and….

The Booker triumph of Graham Swift's moving, effortlessly profound Last Orders is a vindication of the quiet, much-misunderstood path this fine write….

It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic bec….

She might be a great person, but life's so much bigger than just loving someone..

If you were a boy and a girl and you were in love with each other, really, properly in love, and if you could show it, then the people who run Hailsh….

After all, when we were children, when things went wrong, there wasn’t much we could do to help put it right. But now we’re adults, now we can. That’….

My donors have always tended to do much better than expected..

There are things I am more interested in than the clone thing. How are they trying to find their place in the world and make sense of their lives? To….

As I say, I have never in all these years thought of the matter in quite this way; but then it is perhaps in the nature of coming away on a trip such….

I cannot start a story or chapter without knowing how it ends. ... Of course, it rarely ends that way..

What he wanted was not just to hear about Hailsham, but to remember Hailsham, just like it had been his own childhood. He knew he was close to comple….

Typically in my novels the narrator tells a story by remembering, and the memories are colored by this and colored by that. So the whole universe of ….

There is certainly a satisfaction and dignity to be gained in coming to terms with the mistakes one has made in the course of one’s life.

I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was ever going to write something strange an….

It didn't hurt, did it? When I hit you?" "Sure. Fractured skull. Concussion, the lot..." "But seriously, Kath. No hard feelings, right? I'm awfully s….

I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities for self-decepti….

I was very young when I prepared those prints. I suspect the reason I couldn't celebrate the floating world was that I couldn't bring myself to belie….

People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values i….

It is all very well, in these changing times, to adapt one's work to take in duties not traditionally within one's realm; but bantering is of another….