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"Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem."
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"A child prodigy is one with highly imaginative parents."
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"As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing."
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"We're all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent."
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"Your gift is what you were created to be."
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"Talent is the presence of ability and absence of understanding about the source and operation of knowledge."
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"It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?"
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"There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail."
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"When you find out the field you were gifted, what you were created for, you will get guaranteed success."
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"That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools."
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"Talent is the seed, success is the fruit."
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"But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons."
Time
"The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it."
Books
"The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me."
Books
"As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?"
Politics
"But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics."
Politics
"But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn into novels."
Time
"I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood."
People
"Luckily, in my case, I have managed, by writing, to do the one thing that I always wanted to do."
Writing
"As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting in the social background on a scale which eventually became panoramic."
Books
"I live a perfectly happy and comfortable life in Blair's Britain, but I can't work up much affection for the culture we've created for ourselves: it's too cynical, too knowing, too ironic, too empty of real value and meaning."
Life
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