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" Man, who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance! "

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" Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one. I'm delighted to win them all, the whole lot. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" You know, 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now before I popped off. "

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

" I wasn't an active feminist in the '60s, never have been. "

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

" We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed. "

" A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away. "

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

" Literature is analysis after the event. "

" 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. "

" Some people obtain fame, others deserve it. "

" 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. "

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