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- It's amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you.
- I'm sure that everybody feels a kind of permanent anguish about what's going on in the world.
- I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars.
- I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
- I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame.
- I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and,…
- I do not think writers ought ever to sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they write…
- 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.…
- 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…
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