"A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom."

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"A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom."

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"The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him."

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"The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it."

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"When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales."

Nation

"Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us."

Education

"I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt."

Flying

"All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and sometimes very severely."

Life

"Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people."

People

"I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do."

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"Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home."

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"My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it."

Family