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" Everything all the time in a city is extraordinary! "

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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. "

" There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to. "

" A story is how we construct our experiences. "

" Pearls mean tears. "

" 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. "

" September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible. "

" What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared. "

" The World War I, I'm a child of World War I. And I really know about the children of war. Because both my parents were both badly damaged by the war. My father, physically, and both mentally and emotionally. So, I know exactly what it's like to be brought up in an atmosphere of a continual harping on the war. "

" I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government. "

" I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story. "

" It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months. "

" Some people obtain fame, others deserve it. "

" I never thought of London in terms of possible heroes - of course, there are thousands. It's a very talented city. "

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

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

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

" For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying. "

" If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air. "

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

" I was a nursemaid. And it was pretty boring. "

" I do not think writers ought ever to sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they write about their own experiences, something true is going to emerge. "

" Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel. "

" I'm just a story teller. "

" I am your original autodidact. "

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

" Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time. "

Science Fiction

" 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. "

" When there's a war, people get married. "

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

" This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we - we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything. "