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It's true: one of the things that I've always thought about American society is that you never get the sort of natural politicisation of class consciousness that you would get in the United Kingdom or even in Australia.

Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry.

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I don't separate my books into historical novels and the rest. To me, they're all made-up worlds, and both kinds are borne out of curiosity, some investigation into the past.

I'm interested in where we are, where we're going, where we've come from.

And it's always possible that you will not get a nice review. So - and that's enraging of course, to get a bad review, you can't talk back, and it's sort of shaming in a way.

Australia is my lens. I cannot see the world any other way.

I woke up in Australia almost every day for the first 47 years of my life. When I left, I didn't discard that, didn't reject that, didn't forget that. Not even New York City can wipe that out.

The Australian cast of mind is not something I would want to be without - and I couldn't be without. It's not a choice.

When I was young and easily outraged, I would be upset when every fictional character I created was somehow reduced to 'autobiography.'

Culture is the way for a country to know itself.

I think there was, and there is, a real Commonwealth culture. It's different. America doesn't really feel to be a part of that.

The failure of the U.S.'s foreign adventures often seems to have its roots in the U.S.'s total ignorance of things on the ground, of the countries that they fiddle with.

I would be the worst person on earth to be called to write an account of someone else's life.

I'm someone who always wants to do everything differently. If I have a pattern, I'd rather I didn't have a pattern. I want every book to be unpredictable and new. Damn it!

My father left school at the age of fourteen, so this was a man with no deep experience of formal education.

My mother was the daughter of a poor schoolteacher - well, that's a tautology - a country schoolteacher.

When I finally began to publish, my father never read my work. He'd say, 'Oh, that's your mother's sort of thing.' But my mother found the books rather upsetting. I figure she read just enough to know that she didn't...

I got a job in advertising. So even though I was writing, I was always supporting myself. That's the thing that would matter for my father, who was absolutely a creature of the Great Depression.

At school, I was fanatical about being a scientist.

Faulkner's 'As I Lay Dying' had an immense effect on me, and most of my novels bear the burn marks of this experience, those short chapters with their conflicting points of view, truth expressed by multiple perspectives. The other attractive...

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