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

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" With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how. "

" 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.' "

" We like to think we can solve everything, but we can't always. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 was writing all my childhood. And I wrote two novels when I was 17, which were terrible. And I'm not sorry I threw them out. So, I wrote. I had to write. You know, the thing was, I had no education. "

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

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

" It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months. "

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

" In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better. "

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

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

" A story is how we construct our experiences. "

" 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 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. "

" Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling. "

" You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant. "

" I have a daughter and two grand-daughters and a great grandson in Africa, in Cape Town. "

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

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

" I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I. "

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

" I'm compulsive. "

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

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