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

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" What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms. "

" I never stopped reading. "

" 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. "

" It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction. "

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

" All my friends' mothers were appalling women. "

" Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling. "

" As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital. "

" God knows why nobody ever learns from the preceding generation - but they don't. "

" You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months. "

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

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

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

" Some people obtain fame, others deserve it. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be. "

" 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. "

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