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" I am your original autodidact. "

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

" They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now before I popped off. "

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

" I remember World War II when there were very few books, very little paper available. For me to walk into a shop or look at a list and see anything that I want, or almost anything, is like a kind of miracle. "

" 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. "

" I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one. I'm delighted to win them all, the whole lot. "

" I'm sure that everybody feels a kind of permanent anguish about what's going on in the world. "

" 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. "

" Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences. At the very simplest, it can be: 'He/she was born, lived, died.' Probably that is the template of our stories - a beginning, middle, and end. This structure is in our minds. "

" A story is how we construct our experiences. "

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

" I got married and I had children because of the Second World War, as all of us did, exclaiming, 'Oh, no, we are never going to bring a child into this wicked world,' but we had children by the dozen and got married. "

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

" The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to their tune. "

" There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best. "

" You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much. "

" I am always being described as having views that I've never had in my life. "

" 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. "

" Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew. "

" We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed. "

" Some people obtain fame, others deserve it. "

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

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

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

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

" Small things amuse small minds. "

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