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"Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore."
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"We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void."

"We discover part of our true self only by conspicuous inspection of the depths of our conscience."

"Believing without questioning is an insult to the human conscience."

"Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience."

"Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors."

"It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world."

"We cannot be indifferent to the evil in our society."

"You'll have to be my conscience. He knew his flaws, and he knew the parts of him that were irrevocably broken. "Mine isn't going to grow back."

"Conscience is the parliament in our mind. It depends on who holds the majority."

"Conscience is not white, black or brown. Conscience is human. It is beyond race " it is beyond religion " it is beyond all sectarianism."
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"At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career."

"And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee."

"So the books have a greater appeal to a British audience, but that hasn't stopped them making best-seller lists in places like Brazil, Japan and at least a dozen other countries."

"Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations."

"I sometimes wonder what would have happened if the first book had not sold... doesn't bear thinking about, but I suppose we'd have made it work somehow."

"I'll happily mentor anyone who wants mentoring, and most of that goes on by internet rather than face to face."

"One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, but that sort of research is fairly desultory and I like to stick to the book being written - and writing a book concentrates the mind so the research is more productive."

"Judy couldn't move to Britain for family reasons, so I had to come to the States, and the U.S. government wouldn't give me a Green Card, so I airily told her I'd write a book."

"Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations."
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