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Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
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Pearls mean tears.
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What is a hero without love for mankind.
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It is very enjoyable, writing a story. You get this idea. It takes hold of you. And then you spend day and night thinking about how to do it. And then you do it. And much later, you think, 'Oh, yes. That's an interesting question.'
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When I was bringing up a child, I taught myself to write in very short, concentrated bursts. If I had a weekend, or a week, I'd do unbelievable amounts of work.
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Parents should leave books lying around marked 'forbidden' if they want their children to read.
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Everything all the time in a city is extraordinary!
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With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.
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I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'
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Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.
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I'm just a story teller.
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I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the women's movement.
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You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life; the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it.
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Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
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I always hated Tony Blair, from the beginning.
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Small things amuse small minds.
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I think kids ought to travel. I think it's very good to carry kids around. It's good for them. Of course it's tough on the parents.
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Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.
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I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars.
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I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.
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My father was in the First World War.
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I have a daughter and two grand-daughters and a great grandson in Africa, in Cape Town.
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When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia.
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I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.