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

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

" I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading. "

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

" There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful. "

" When I started, there were no big interviews, no television, no profiles and all that. The publishers were quite shockingly uncommercial, but they did look after their writers. "

" When I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires. You know, when people talk about the British Empire, they always forget that all the European countries had empires. "

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

" 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. "

" I've worked hard all my life. You have to if you want to get things done. "

" I never stopped reading. "

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

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

" 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. "

" It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important. "

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

" It's amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you. "

" I haven't got the energy to write now. "

" I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.' "

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

" It is very enjoyable, writing a story. You get this idea. It takes hold of you. And then you spend day and night thinking about how to do it. And then you do it. And much later, you think, 'Oh, yes. That's an interesting question.' "

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

" In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Pearls mean tears. "

" A story is how we construct our experiences. "

" Literature is analysis after the event. "

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

" That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. "