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" A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying. "

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" What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully. "

" One is made by all the things around one. There are many things that have made one. For a writer to go around looking for things that have made him is asking for trouble. It's like giving a character to yourself. Can't do it. Can't do it. These things are just there. Is that enough? "

" All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right. "

" It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut. "

" The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next. "

" To be a writer you have to be out in the world, you have to risk yourself in the world, you have to be immersed in the world, you have to go out looking for it. This becomes harder as you get older because there's less energy, the days are shorter for older people and it's not so easy to go out and immerse oneself in the world outside. "

" I'm very content. "

" Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives. "

" Africa has no future. "

" I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest regard for the craft. I've always felt it was work. "

" If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead. "

" If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account. "

" My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh. "

" One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal. "

" If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris. "

" How can you be an atheist and have an ideology to go with it? To be an atheist is to be free of some areas of belief. I don't see how that can become an ideology. "

" What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude. "

" I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea. "

" It is important not to trust people too much. "

" If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don't express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It's a form of aggression. "

" Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well. "

" Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others. "

" There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to. "

" If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms, break the forms. "

" The writer is all alone. "

" If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing. "

" The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it. "

" I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost. "

" One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria. "

" I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not. "