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"Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote."
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"I did not choose necessarily on the basis of significance. If you have a vote for the most significant athlete, then you have Ali, then you have Babe Ruth, then you have Michael Jordan."
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"I would never say somebody had to vote for anybody. That would be terrible. I haven't said that."
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"You can't vote that water out of the city of New Orleans."

"I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes."
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"The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis."


"I'm writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing. I love it, and I'm very greedy, and I really enjoy it!"


"If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young."


"It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself."


"I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world."


"Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche."


"I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons."


"At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer."
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