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

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" Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue. "

" I'm compulsive. "

" I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.' "

" Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse. "

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

" I thought that would go without saying, that if a mother gives up her children, it's very painful. "

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

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

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

" I do have a sense, and I've never not had it, of how easily things can vanish. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It is very enjoyable, writing a story. You get this idea. It takes hold of you. And then you spend day and night thinking about how to do it. And then you do it. And much later, you think, 'Oh, yes. That's an interesting question.' "

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

" I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing. "

" When there's a war, people get married. "

" I am always being described as having views that I've never had in my life. "

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

" 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. "

" I have ideas that I will probably never write now. "