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- I make no complaint. I am a writer. I do not accept my condition; I will strive to change it; but I inhabit it, I…
- Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.
- Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.
- The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously,…
- Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as…
- Anyone who has had the experience of going through American security checks knows the purpose of these checks is not to make you safer; it's…
- Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men in countries which…
- I have always thought, the secret purpose of the book tour is to make the writer hate the book he's written. And, as a result,…
- I only met Margaret Thatcher twice. The thing that I thought about meeting her was how extraordinarily intelligent she was. You really had to be…
- If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not…
- If you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life arguing about freedom because it is all around you. It seems…
- If you're on a freeway and want to know if you're being followed, what you do is enormously vary your speed. You accelerate to 100…
- One of the things I've learnt is not to depend on there being a woman in your life to make it work. I love my…
- Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to…
- The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to…
- The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I…
- The interesting thing about history sometimes. is that you know these people existed, and you knew what jobs they did, but you don't know much…
- The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the…
- This is going to make me sound ancient, but I remember Juhu Beach when there weren't any buildings on it. You'd go through countryside and…
- We all dream things into being; you imagine yourself having a child, and then you have a child. An inventor will think of something in…
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