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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling. "

" Some people obtain fame, others deserve it. "

" Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel. "

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

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

" Literature is analysis after the event. "

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

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

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

" Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors. "

" I see every book as a problem that you have to solve. That is what dictates the form you use. It's not that you say, 'I want to write a science fiction book.' You start from the other end, and what you have to say dictates the form of it. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I wasn't an active feminist in the '60s, never have been. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I'm sure that everybody feels a kind of permanent anguish about what's going on in the world. "

" As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital. "

" When there's a war, people get married. "

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

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

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

Black And White

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "