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"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."
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"But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons."
Time
"As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?"
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"But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics."
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"But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn into novels."
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"I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood."
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"As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting in the social background on a scale which eventually became panoramic."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other novelists I meet: so I have to write about my own country, at the present time, because it's more or less all I know about!"
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