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" There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't. "

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

" 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. "

" What I really can't stand about the feminist revolution is that it produced some of the smuggest, most unselfcritical people the world has ever seen. They are horrible. "

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

" I never thought of London in terms of possible heroes - of course, there are thousands. It's a very talented city. "

" Everything all the time in a city is extraordinary! "

" I am your original autodidact. "

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

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

" Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time. "

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

" 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. "

" Pearls mean tears. "

" It's amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you. "

" Some people obtain fame, others deserve it. "

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

" The World War I, I'm a child of World War I. And I really know about the children of war. Because both my parents were both badly damaged by the war. My father, physically, and both mentally and emotionally. So, I know exactly what it's like to be brought up in an atmosphere of a continual harping on the war. "

" A story is how we construct our experiences. "

" Literature is analysis after the event. "

" 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. "

" The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion. "

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

" There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" My father was always so mingled with rage at his life. "

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