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I don't have a deep link with England like, say, Jonathan Coe or Hanif Kureishi might demonstrate. For me, it is like a mythical place.

England is so defined, the class system, your education. I think what was unique about the Canterbury scene.

When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, - but never England.

England gave me a language and literature, the basis of what I am as a writer, but when I started writing more directly about my own experience, it wasn't England so much as what went before.

England is a fairly envious little country and it's embodied in the press. They don't like anyone being more distinguished than they are.

England as a culture has endured so much more than America has as a culture, so it's given them a different perspective.

I love England - it's no secret.

The fact is that I loved being in England.