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" That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do. "

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" The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next. "

" I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs. "

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" When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day. "

" It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually. "

" I still think it's really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness. "

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" Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well. "

" I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading. "

" One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal. "

" What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude. "

" I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world. "

" I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world. "

" If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris. "

" If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms, break the forms. "

" I have a very small public. "

" All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right. "

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" I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery. "

" In England people are very proud of being very stupid. "