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

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" 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. "

" A story is how we construct our experiences. "

" 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. "

" I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the women's movement. "

" Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse. "

" Things are not quite so simple always as black and white. "

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" If you are a young writer today, it's very hard. "

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

" Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so. "

" 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. "

" You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life; the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it. "

" There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children. "

" I'm compulsive. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame. "

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

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

" The human race has been telling stories since it began. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" All I do is give interviews and spend time being photographed. "

" Literature is analysis after the event. "