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- If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a language. Which goes…
- I didn't want to become some embittered old hack getting his revenge for the rest of my life. And I didn't want to become some…
- Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do, not…
- Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
- If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
- If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
- Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.
- You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.
- Doris Lessing really doesn't care what the critics say. In fact, she orders her publishers not to send her the reviews and gets cross with…
- 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…
- When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you want, in whatever…
- I want more than what I want. (Vina Apsara)
- But love is what we want, not freedom. Who then is the unluckier man? The beloved, who is given his heart's desire and must for…
- Don't you know girls have to fool people every day of their lives if they want to get anywhere?
- Whenever I write something, I always want to make sure that what I write is defensible.
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