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It seems to me that not only the writing in most children's books condescends to kids, but so does the art. I don't want to do that.
Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
I confess that I listen to my own music for my own pleasure.
The first Bond movie I saw at cinemas was 'For Your Eyes Only' when I was almost 10. I got into the Fleming books after watching 'A View To A Kill' a few years later.
I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books.
I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.
Because I'd done 30 plays or so at Oxford, I thought that I was an actress anyway because that's what I was doing!
My love of books - not just of their tactile pleasures but of their astonishing variety - was born in a book-filled house; my father is a scholar.
