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"Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more."
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"A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not."


"All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe."


"Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife."


"An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details."


"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."


"When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We would set out together after school across the village green."


"Pear Drops were exciting because they had a dangerous taste. All of us were warned against eating them, and the result was that we ate them more than ever."


"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."


"The Bristol Channel was always my guide, and I was always able to draw an imaginary line from my bed to our house over in Wales. It was a great comfort."
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