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Someone is out there looking to put you out of business. Someone is out there who thinks they have a better idea than you have. A better solution than you have. A better or more efficient product than you have.Collection: Mark
Liquidity is a good proxy for relative net worth. You can't lie about cash, stocks, and bond values.Collection: Mark
There is so much partisan and tribal politics, from not just those seeking office but potential voters as well, that we never get real attempts at solutions to problems.Collection: Mark
I think good books have to make a few people angry.Collection: Mark
If you came from Mars and tried to analyse British or American society through novels, you'd think our society was preponderantly full of middle-aged, slightly alcoholic, middle-class, intellectual men, most of whom are divorced from their families and have nothing to do with children.Collection: Mark
I think I've learnt that there is no character so strange that you haven't shared their experience in some small way.Collection: Mark
There was a time in my life when I was going in and out of houses that were extraordinarily different - from a working-class terrace in Northampton to the homes of friends who were really very wealthy. It was quite an odd position to be in, I realise looking back, and quite a nice one.Collection: Mark
I am quite amazed how, when people earn lots of money, they think they have to spend it on things that give them access to the club constituted by the people who are in their tax bracket.Collection: Mark
Show me the artist anywhere who's had an utterly stable mental life, and I'll buy you hot dinners for the rest of your life.Collection: Mark
I think Britain has this tradition which suggests that if you make the readers laugh too much, you can't really be serious. Whereas, I think one of the functions laughter can perform in a book, as in life, is that it's a reaction to genuine horror.Collection: Mark
I'm really lucky in that I can do lots of different things. It must be really hard to just be a poet or just be a novelist - a constant cycle of effort and exhaustion and recuperation.Collection: Mark
I read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books.Collection: Mark
With English literature, if you do a bit of shonky spelling, no one dies, but if you're half-way through a maths calculation and you stick in an extra zero, everything just crashes into the ravine.Collection: Mark
As a teenager, I was always this strange mixture of kind of vice-captain of the rugby team and sensitive artist type the rest of the time. I was sent away to this public school in the middle of nowhere, and I think we managed to completely miss out on normal youth culture.Collection: Mark
When I was 13 or 14, I started devouring novels; literature took quite a while to take me over, but it caught up just in time to save me from becoming a mathematician.Collection: Mark
As to the number of novels I've abandoned... I shudder to think. I have thrown away five completed novels, and that's a gruesome enough figure. But not necessarily a waste of effort.Collection: Mark
Humour and high seriousness... Perfect bedfellows, I think. Though I usually phrase it in terms of comedy and darkness. Comedy without darkness rapidly becomes trivial. And darkness without comedy rapidly becomes unbearable.Collection: Mark
Fiction that responds to recent world events is a hostage to fortune, because all momentous events look very different a year, two years, three years later.Collection: Mark
I have very fond memories of swimming in Walden Pond when we lived in Boston. You'd swim past a log and see all these turtles sunning themselves. Slightly disturbing if you thought about how many more were swimming around your toes, but also rather wonderful.Collection: Mark
Indeed, I am repeatedly astonished by the number of really good writers who understand human beings so well on paper but don't know how to deal with them in real life.Collection: Mark
It took me a long time to come out as someone who doesn't like film. It's a bit like when people say they don't like books: you get that sharp intake of breath.Collection: Mark
I am really interested in eccentric minds. It's rather like being fascinated by how cars work. It's really boring if your car works all the time. But as soon as something happens, you get the bonnet up. If someone has an abnormal or dysfunctional state of mind, you get the bonnet up.Collection: Mark
Stories about mental aberration and oddity only make sense in context. Just how do people live with someone who is peculiar, gifted, strange or alien? It's odd because there's a little part of me that wants to write about exotic, strange bizarre subjects. Instead, I've rather reluctantly realised that what I write about is families.Collection: Mark
I suffer depression only in the sense that I am a writer. We don't have proper jobs to go to. We are on our own all day. Show me a writer who doesn't get depressed: who has a completely stable mood. They'd be a garage mechanic or something.Collection: Mark
Obviously I have a capacity for feeling extreme anxiety, and there are people out there who don't. I'm to some extent rather jealous of them.Collection: Mark
My best days do seem like a distillation of all that was best about school. Write a story! Paint a picture! Write a poem! Make a print!Collection: Mark
One of the freedoms you get if you earn a lot of money from a book is to throw away what you want. And if you throw a lot away, the good stuff always comes back; nothing is lost.Collection: Mark
I'm really interested in the extraordinary found in the normal. Hopefully, my books don't take you to an entirely different place but make you look at things around you.Collection: Mark
Madness doesn't happen to someone alone. Very few people have experiences that are theirs alone.Collection: Mark
I'm not as talented as others, but I have a determination and will that enable me to work a lot harder than anyone else.Collection: Mark
I have to cross the line first. Sometimes you can put it as a fear of losing, but actually it's an addiction to winning.Collection: Mark
When you're a young pro from an undeveloped country in road cycling then you're on the back foot.Collection: Mark
If you're winning bike races ahead of guys who're older than you then they're going to get upset. When some young guy appears from nowhere, some people who are slower assume they ride dangerously.Collection: Mark
If you want a lot of endorsements then you'd pick the Olympics. But I've had a passion for the Tour since I was a kid. Let's put it this way: it would be harder to win a stage on the Tour de France so that would mean more. I'd take the Tour win first - but I'm aiming for both.Collection: Mark
I think an Olympic medal is the only thing missing from what I can physically achieve as a cyclist. I can't win the Tour de France, but I've pretty much won everything else that I can within my physical realm, so that's the only thing missing.Collection: Mark
I love track racing and I'm proud to be a British cyclist and proud to pull on the jersey to represent my country.Collection: Mark
Lance Armstrong won seven Tours, that's 147 days of racing, and he never had a puncture or a mechanical. You can really minimise your chances of a mistake if you do everything right.Collection: Mark
It's so ironic that the better you get the easier it becomes to win.Collection: Mark
I'm not getting bored with cycling or winning - I love it. But I need to give myself new targets all the time.Collection: Mark
For any young rider even competing in the San Remo is one of the biggest things - but to win it is beyond emotion. You can't put it into words.Collection: Mark
If I do a circuit, then after three laps I could tell you where all the potholes were.Collection: Mark
I constantly do puzzle books. Smash through them. My iPad's full of them. Logic puzzles. Bridges. Slitherlink.Collection: Mark
I have a house in a small town in Tuscany where everybody knows and looks out for each other. That's a similar mentality to on the Isle of Man.Collection: Mark
I don't like being in London too long, because everybody's just looking straight forward, at nobody else. That freaks me out a little bit.Collection: Mark
I want to provide the best possible life for my daughter. I want her to be so proud of me. You know, I never rode just for myself. I did it for my team as well. But this feels different. This feels like I'm riding my heart out for her.Collection: Mark
There's no emotion. I just see the gap and, instinctively, go for it.Collection: Mark
I heal pretty well and I know if I crash on the first day of the Tour de France, I've got to get up and get on with it.Collection: Mark
The Giro's difficult to predict for the points jersey because there are so many mountain-top finishes and there are as many points on offer for mountain stages as for sprints. It's really for the most consistent all-round rider and it's pretty difficult for me to win it.Collection: Mark
I realised my whole focus each year is about the Tour de France.Collection: Mark
The Belgian people, they're so happy.Collection: Mark