Luke Kennard
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543 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 8 Jul
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because, again, because I consider that just sort of beneath contempt, right?
Like, what have I got to say about that apart from, like, this is so... He's fantastic, Claudio.
That's so key.
That friction is really key.
I think it's one of the reasons that he refuses to... So every now and then he goes to visit his parents, who live like an hour and a half away by a couple of train journeys, and he refuses to describe them.
So he just describes them as two columns of stone.
LAUGHTER
Because he says writers are awful.
The moment you describe anyone, they'll just seem like an asshole to you.
I think this was partly provoked by there was a lot of discourse online before Twitter finally became a completely unacceptable place to still maintain any presence on.
There was always a lot of completely unedifying talk about books and literature on there, but there was one about likable characters and about demanding likable characters.
I was like, God, people who are calling for likable characters, strike me as incredibly unlikable yourselves.
real pieces of work.
You strike me as opinionated, pretty, annoying, kind of stupid as well, but also not aware of how stupid you are.
You strike me as about as unlikable as it gets, actually.
And you want likable characters in your novels?
Fuck you.
So it kind of came from that.
And I was like, look.
any single human being who has ever existed, if they were described in detail, if I was described in detail for let alone 400 pages, like 50 pages, you would cross the road to avoid me.
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