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" I would not be at all surprised to find out... that the dimensions of buildings affect us in ways we don't guess. "

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

" My father was always so mingled with rage at his life. "

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

" I'm compulsive. "

" It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" I was writing all my childhood. And I wrote two novels when I was 17, which were terrible. And I'm not sorry I threw them out. So, I wrote. I had to write. You know, the thing was, I had no education. "

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

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

" I don't write well when I'm sitting there sweating about every single phrase. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Some people obtain fame, others deserve it. "

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

" 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 was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't. "

" Small things amuse small minds. "

" With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how. "

" I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars. "

" What I really can't stand about the feminist revolution is that it produced some of the smuggest, most unselfcritical people the world has ever seen. They are horrible. "

" 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. "