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I Have Never Begun A Novel Which Wasn't Going To Stretch Me Further Than I Had Ever Stretched Before.

I'm Always The One With The Activist Friends. I've Been An Activist Very Little.

I Thought I Would Be An Organic Chemist. I Went Off To University, And When I Couldn't Understand The Chemistry Lectures I Decided That I Would Be A Zoologist, Because Zoologists Seemed Like Life-loving People.

The Great Thing About Using The Past Is That It Gives You The Most Colossal Freedom To Invent. The Research Is Necessary, Of Course, But No One Writes A Novel To Dramatically Illustrate What Everybody Already Knows.

Being Famous As A Writer Is Like Being Famous In A Village. It's Not Really Any Very Heady Fame.