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• All our heroes, all our great stories are about failure.
• Swimming always cleans your soul
• I did not know that history is like a blood stain that keeps on showing on the wall no matter how many…
• I had known loneliness before, and emptiness upon the moor, but I had never been a NOTHING, a nothing floating on a…
• Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.
• Living where I live New York I don't think anyone's going to make a fuss. But it is more deeply satisfying because…
• Then I fell in love and everything went to hell.
• And it's always possible that you will not get a nice review. So - and that's enraging of course, to get a…
• At the very end of a book I can manage to work for longer stretches, but mostly, making stuff up for three…
• Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.
• I don't separate my books into historical novels and the rest. To me, they're all made-up worlds, and both kinds are borne…
• I don't think you have the right to shout about other people's private life.

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