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" Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most. "

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" In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it. "

" The first story I finished was when I was six years old. "

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" I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill. "

" I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had. "

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" Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. "

" Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young. "

" We're a phenomenally snobby society, and it's such a rich seam. The middle class is so funny: it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny. "

" Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike. "

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