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- As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the…
- All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will…
- We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
- All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
- The writer is all alone.
- One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work…
- I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
- My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.
- After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
- I often wonder what would have happened to me if I hadn't made that decision. I suppose I would have sunk. I suppose I would…
- Look, boys, it ever strike you that the world not real at all? It ever strike you that we have the only mind in the…
- Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I…
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