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

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" What is a hero without love for mankind. "

" You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much. "

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

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

" When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia. "

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

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

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

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

" I always hated Tony Blair, from the beginning. "

" 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. "

" When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue. "

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

" Literature is analysis after the event. "

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

" My father was in the First World War. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" The human race has been telling stories since it began. "

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

" I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government. "

" It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel. "