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" I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not. "

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" Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives. "

" Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins. "

" The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate. "

" I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading. "

" A cat only has itself. "

" I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years. "

" Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well. "

" My life is short. I can't listen to banality. "

" I still think it's really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness. "

" I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time. "

" I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred. "

" I'm very content. "

" Making a book is such a big enterprise. "

" I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs. "

" The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next. "

" I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest regard for the craft. I've always felt it was work. "

" One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal. "

" If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead. "

" It is important not to trust people too much. "

" It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually. "

" The world is always in movement. "

" I've never abandoned the novel. "

" But everything of value about me is in my books. "

" In England people are very proud of being very stupid. "

" At school I had only admirers; I had no friends. "

" If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know? "

" To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.' "