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"Luckily, in my case, I have managed, by writing, to do the one thing that I always wanted to do."
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"Write and create a blue sky Forever with joy where I can fly."
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"A writer travels through the heart again and again to express the beauty of its contents."
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"Wondering leads to writing."
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"Writings are thoughts in a defined moment."
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"Every great writer is a great reader."
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"When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'"
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"Until you begin to write, then you will see the beauty of writing."
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"What you listen in heart, are echoes of the past.What you write today, will be echoed in the future."
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"Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor."
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"Fiction is the truth inside the lie."
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"But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons."
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"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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