I always feel I'm better known in England than I am here in the U.S. Americans don't read that much, and the French are very good at knowing the names of everybody.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Not too many people in America know about me, but all of Europe knows about me.
You know, I've just about got used to the fact that people in Britain know who I am on some level, but the notion that there's any kind of international recognition is still slightly bizarre to me.
Most commonly, I've been recognized from people who aren't actually from England.
I've been well-known in Britain for a long time.
I think Brits probably feel that Americans are more like us than vice-versa, if that makes sense. Because we get everything American over here in Britain, but yet there are things which are staunchly English that you guys don't have.
A lot of people don't think I'm English. I've lived in France, and people do think I'm French, but I don't see myself as having a glamorous look.
All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there.
In Britain I'm sometimes regarded as a suspiciously Europeanized writer, who has this rather dubious French influence.
Everyone thinks England and America are the same, as we have the same language, but I felt like an alien as an English person living in America.
Everyone in America thinks I'm American - and everyone in England seems to think I'm American.