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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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…she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.
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I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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I don’t talk very well. With writing, you’ve time to get it right. Also I’ve found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn’t write no one would want me to talk anyway.
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Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.
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