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I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between…
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I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood.
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Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem.
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As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?
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As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to…
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But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because…
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But I have always - ever since The Accidental Woman - written novels about individuals attempting to make choices in the context…
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Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more about other places, and…
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I live a perfectly happy and comfortable life in Blair's Britain, but I can't work up much affection for the culture we've…
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I was mainly in a state of nervousness while I wrote it - nervousness that it was far bigger and more complicated…
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I like the idea of a big caesura between the narratives, a space which readers can fill in with their own speculative…
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Revisionist historians are about to get their hands on the Thatcher years, shes probably going to be looked at again because she…
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Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Sometimes I wonder if there's something wrong with me. Perhaps I've spent too long in the company of my literary romantic heroes,…
— E. L. James
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Books help to form us. If you cut me open, you will find volume after volume, page after page, the contents of…
— Susan Hill
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The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics,…
— Johannes V. Jensen
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My literary success meant nothing to me
— Taylor Caldwell
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Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think of any other place…
— Harold Brodkey
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I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts.
— George Orwell
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My literary career kicked off in 1956 when, as a resident of Swansea, South Wales, I published my first novel, 'Lucky Jim.
— Martin Amis
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The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.
— Jonathan Coe
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Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life.
— Rick Moody
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The great break of my literary career was going to law school.
— Scott Turow
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My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.
— Robert Harris
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