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"Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are."
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"I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best."
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"The writer is more concerned to know than to judge."
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"I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do."
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"Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other."
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"So the lover must struggle for words."
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"The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years."
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"Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers."
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"Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are."
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"I was never really a writer, I was always more of a performer."
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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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"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
"Luckily, in my case, I have managed, by writing, to do the one thing that I always wanted to do."
Writing
"Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are."
Writer
"I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood."
People
"It's only a drawback in the States, where most people seem to have no real interest in other countries and the notion of a novel which might offer insight into life in the UK doesn't seem to appeal very widely."
Life
"I became quite taken over by Johnson's personality at some points while writing the biography, and since I went straight on to The Closed Circle afterwards, I did sometimes feel I could hear him whispering in my ear while I was working on it."
Johnson
"I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing."
Creativity
"The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's."
Melancholy
"My only regret is that I signed away the world rights and in America they've been far and away my most successful books, but I never saw a cent from any of it."
Success
"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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