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I have written millions of words about contemporary England - in journalism. Why don't I take it as the background for a novel? I may do one day. But the simple answer is that it does not excite the novelistic part of my brain it does not fire it up.

Sebastian Faulks

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Sebastian Faulks
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: April 20
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