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"I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood."
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"I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing."
"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."
"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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"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."
"The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me."
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