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• It was in the air, or so it seemed to Kiki, this hatred of women and their bodies- it seeped in with…
• A writer's duty is to register what it is like for him or her to be in the world.
• Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to…
• Our children will be born of our actions. Our accidents will become their destinies. Oh, the actions will remain. It is a…
• But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small…
• Most of the cruelty in the world is just misplaced energy.
• Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is…
• Sometimes I think my whole professional life has been based on this hunch I had, early on, that many people feel just…
• I remember so clearly, in the early days, if I had to do a piece of press, they'd phone for me and…
• It's gotten to a point where everybody is concerned about their rights and nobody is concerned about their duties.
• Work on a computer that is disconnected from the ­internet.
• I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of…

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