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"Love deep is inexhaustible like a vast ocean."
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"I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons."

"At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer."

"I'm writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing. I love it, and I'm very greedy, and I really enjoy it!"

"It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself."

"Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?"

"As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm."

"Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche."

"I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don't care if it's stereotyped."
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