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" There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children. "

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

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

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

" What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared. "

" Literature is analysis after the event. "

" I got married and I had children because of the Second World War, as all of us did, exclaiming, 'Oh, no, we are never going to bring a child into this wicked world,' but we had children by the dozen and got married. "

" A story is how we construct our experiences. "

" September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible. "

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

" When I became political and Communist, it was because they were the only people I had ever met who fought the color bar in their lives. "

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

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

" 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. "

" The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms. "

" My father was in the First World War. "

" I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story. "

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

" I'm just a story teller. "

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

" I'm compulsive. "

" Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says. "

" You know, looking at it objectively, I've written one or two good books. "

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

" Small things amuse small minds. "

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

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

" Things are not quite so simple always as black and white. "

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" Some people obtain fame, others deserve it. "

" I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame. "

" I don't write well when I'm sitting there sweating about every single phrase. "