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Publishers send me a lot of first novels because my first novel was the defining novel of my career, and I guess a lot of people want my benediction or something.
When Fargo came out, I hired a publicist for the first time in my life. I thought, if ever I was going to make it, that was then.
I write the kinds of novels I like to read, where the setting is rendered with love and care.
I read the final Wallander novel, 'The Troubled Man,' not long after it was published.
Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.
When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.
I couldn't deal with playing a character who rides motorcycles and has a leather jacket and is a tough kid, y'know?
I would love to live in India or in the South of France, but Roger Vivier doesn't have offices yet in New Delhi or Jaipur.
In 1980, I published my first novel, in the usual swirl of unjustified hope and justified anxiety.
