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" The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate. "

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" This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true. "

" One is made by all the things around one. There are many things that have made one. For a writer to go around looking for things that have made him is asking for trouble. It's like giving a character to yourself. Can't do it. Can't do it. These things are just there. Is that enough? "

" I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest regard for the craft. I've always felt it was work. "

" Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins. "

" My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world. "

" Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand. "

" My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh. "

" If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account. "

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

" I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands. "

" I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing. "

" Writers should provoke disagreement. "

" Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise. "

" The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it. "

" The world is always in movement. "

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

" I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people. "

" Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I don't think that can be said of the Africa I traveled in. "

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

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

" I've been a free man. "

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

" I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred. "

" One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas - and you have to work through it all. "

" The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities. "

" I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie. "

" A cat only has itself. "

" 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. "

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

" One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria. "