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- When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being (which it is the chief…
- You have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.
- Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long. The number of women prepared to stand up for what they…
- I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
- I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and,…
- There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to…
- This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer…
- There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping…
- I stood looking down out of the window. The street seemed miles down. Suddenly I felt as if I'd flung myself out of the window.…
- At last I understood that the way over, or through this dilemma, the unease at writing about 'petty personal problems' was to recognize that nothing…
- The world is only tolerable because of the empty places in it...when the world's filled up, we'll have to get hold of a star. Any…
- The kitten was six weeks old. It was enchanting, a delicate fairy-tale cat, whose Siamese genes showed in the shape of the face, ears, tail,…
- Growing up is, after all, only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what every one shares.
- When a generation watches the young ones, their future, their responsibility, grow up, and when what they are to inherit is pitiful and so reduced,…
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