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" Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing. "

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" What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, 'Oh, what this really is is so-and-so,' reducing it to a simple formula. "

" My father was always so mingled with rage at his life. "

" I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women. "

" I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer. "

" Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling. "

" When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia. "

" I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married. "

" I see every book as a problem that you have to solve. That is what dictates the form you use. It's not that you say, 'I want to write a science fiction book.' You start from the other end, and what you have to say dictates the form of it. "

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

" I think kids ought to travel. I think it's very good to carry kids around. It's good for them. Of course it's tough on the parents. "

" 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. "

" When I became political and Communist, it was because they were the only people I had ever met who fought the color bar in their lives. "

" 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. "

" My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my brother. "

" 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. "

" What I really can't stand about the feminist revolution is that it produced some of the smuggest, most unselfcritical people the world has ever seen. They are horrible. "

" A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away. "

" It's very interesting what you don't care about. "

" My father was in the First World War. "

" Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors. "

" Man, who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance! "

" My mother died happily of a stroke in her seventies. "

" As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital. "

" Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way. "

" I was writing all my childhood. And I wrote two novels when I was 17, which were terrible. And I'm not sorry I threw them out. So, I wrote. I had to write. You know, the thing was, I had no education. "

" I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I. "

" The thing is, I haven't changed at all. "

" We like to think we can solve everything, but we can't always. "

" Some people obtain fame, others deserve it. "

" In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools. "