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  • I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in half, cut the edges to make a little eight-page booklet, break it up into squares and put in little stick men with little speech bubbles, and I'd have a spy story, a space story and a football story.

    "Gothic Scot". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2001.