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"Since then, I have just read and read - but, that said, I suppose there is a raft of writers to whom I return again and again, not so much because I want to write like them, even if I were capable of it, but simply for a sort of stylistic shot in the arm."
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"It's very homely, this castle. It doesn't have huge ballrooms. I didn't want a cold, cavernous place."
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"What you want, when you want it. As opposed to everything you could ever want, even when you don't."
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"You want the audience to be uncomfortable."
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"It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone."
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"If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do."
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"One-half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it."
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"I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don't want to say anything."
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"With yourself, I think you have to decide the kind of person that you really want to be, and for me, it's just a sweet girl."
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"I want to do for rebounds what Michael Jordan did for dunks."
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"I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it."
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"Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are."
Curiosity
"You learn a lot, writing fiction."
Fiction
"I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements."
Want
"We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from."
Identity
"I rather like getting away from fiction."
Fiction
"I didn't think I had anything particular to say, but I thought I might have something to say to children."
Thought
"It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency."
Choice
"I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the English landscape in search of ancient field systems, drove roads, indications of prehistoric settlement."
History
"I'm now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I'm eternally grateful for."
Now
"There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history."
History
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