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

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" 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. "

" Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way. "

" 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. "

" The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion. "

" The thing is, I haven't changed at all. "

" You know, looking at it objectively, I've written one or two good books. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women. "

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

" In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools. "

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

" What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

Black And White

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Some people obtain fame, others deserve it. "

" My father was in the First World War. "