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In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.

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We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

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I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've had - I don't know what - the literary equivalent of a shower. Something that would start them thinking in a slightly different way, perhaps. That's what I think writers are for.

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What is a hero without love for mankind.

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I wasn't an active feminist in the '60s, never have been.

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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

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I remember World War II when there were very few books, very little paper available. For me to walk into a shop or look at a list and see anything that I want, or almost anything, is like a kind of miracle.

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I do have a sense, and I've never not had it, of how easily things can vanish.

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It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months.

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Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.

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What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.

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September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.

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Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.

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When I was bringing up a child, I taught myself to write in very short, concentrated bursts. If I had a weekend, or a week, I'd do unbelievable amounts of work.

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They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now before I popped off.

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I am always being described as having views that I've never had in my life.

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The human race has been telling stories since it began.

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I am your original autodidact.

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You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life; the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it.

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My mother died happily of a stroke in her seventies.

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I got married and I had children because of the Second World War, as all of us did, exclaiming, 'Oh, no, we are never going to bring a child into this wicked world,' but we had children by the dozen and got married.

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For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

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I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame.

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Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences. At the very simplest, it can be: 'He/she was born, lived, died.' Probably that is the template of our stories - a beginning, middle, and end. This structure is in our minds.

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I never thought of London in terms of possible heroes - of course, there are thousands. It's a very talented city.

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