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" 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. "

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" I've worked hard all my life. You have to if you want to get things done. "

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

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

" God knows why nobody ever learns from the preceding generation - but they don't. "

" If you are a young writer today, it's very hard. "

" I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've had - I don't know what - the literary equivalent of a shower. Something that would start them thinking in a slightly different way, perhaps. That's what I think writers are for. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" All I do is give interviews and spend time being photographed. "

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

" When I was bringing up a child, I taught myself to write in very short, concentrated bursts. If I had a weekend, or a week, I'd do unbelievable amounts of work. "

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

" Small things amuse small minds. "

" What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness. "

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

" There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful. "

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

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

" There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be. "

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