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- A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
- One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.
- It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
- When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
- I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of…
- If you're offended, it's your problem.
- In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have real people.
- All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.
- Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
- 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…
- Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.
- I'll tell you what divorce hasn't taught me. It didn't teach me not to get married again.
- If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
- If you have children, you worry about the world you're leaving them.
- Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
- Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.
- Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.
- Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.
- The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
- When you are making an independent film, money is never an issue.
- When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.
- You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
- You don't fight radical conservatism with not-quite-so radical conservatism.
- You don't that often see writers being sought out when there are matters of great moment to discuss. And I think that's a loss.
- You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.
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