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"Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are."
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"So the lover must struggle for words."
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"If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer."
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"I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best."
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"Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are."
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"The so-called feminist writers were disgusted with me. I did my thing, and so I guess by feminist standards I'm a feminist. That suits me fine."
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"All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour."
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"The writer is more concerned to know than to judge."
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"Sean's a great, great writer."
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"Most writers can write, most rock 'n rollers cannot."
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"How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator."
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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."
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"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."
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"As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?"
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"But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics."
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"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."
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"I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood."
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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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"Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are."
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"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."
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