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It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months.

I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.

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The human race has been telling stories since it began.

A story is how we construct our experiences.

I'm compulsive.

I was a nursemaid. And it was pretty boring.

I never stopped reading.

You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires.

God knows why nobody ever learns from the preceding generation - but they don't.

I'm just a story teller.

I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing.

Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.

A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away.

I haven't got the energy to write now.

When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.

My father was always so mingled with rage at his life.

All my friends' mothers were appalling women.

What I really can't stand about the feminist revolution is that it produced some of the smuggest, most unselfcritical people the world has ever seen. They are horrible.

Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.

You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much.

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