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'It's weird, but often I feel when I'm writing certain characters and their traits that I have already seen them on TV. In sitcoms or whatever. The humour, I suppose, is TV humour to a great extent, absorbed from the usual suspects - Python, Pete and Dud and the rest. Plus, everything is always moving towards a certain point, and that's a very TV thing. A lot of American writers, like Jonathan Franzen or David Foster Wallace, are aware of these traits and go out of their way to avoid them.
'I mean, if you want to be brutal about it, a novel like, say, Updike's Rabbit at Rest is life, but White Teeth is TV. It's just my generation, I guess.'
"Zadie bites back"