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The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.
Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its own sake.
I think what matters most in literary work is the context, not the text.
I use a wide selection of colours. It is impossible to produce work like mine using only the primary colours as they only mix a certain range of colour.
I know that at literary festivals I'm speaking mostly to middle-class women, who frequently vote in a way that is contrary to how I'd like them to vote.
I think that, given a real choice, people would like to hear something interesting, not something bland and right down the middle.
I always feel like I'm missing out on something, that someone is having more fun than I am, so I take measures to make sure that is impossible.
You're in the public eye and you just hope that people don't come up and interrupt you while your in the middle of a meal or a conversation or something like that.
People are looking for stability in a shaky world. They want something they can get hold of that's firm and sure and an anchor in the midst of all of this instability in which they're living.
