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

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" 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. "

" Literature is analysis after the event. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm just a story teller. "

" I never stopped reading. "

" I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've had - I don't know what - the literary equivalent of a shower. Something that would start them thinking in a slightly different way, perhaps. That's what I think writers are for. "

" Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time. "

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" I always hated Tony Blair, from the beginning. "

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

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

" 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. "

" My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my brother. "

" There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Some people obtain fame, others deserve it. "

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

" I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government. "

" My father was in the First World War. "

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

" 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. "

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

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