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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people of Hong Kong are criticized for only being interested in business, but it's the only thing they've been allowed to do.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who don't read books a lot are threatened by books.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies.
- Congenial
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many aspects of the writing life have changed since I published my first book, in the 1960s. It is more corporate, more driven by profits and marketing, and generally less congenial - but my day is the same: get out of bed, procrastinate, sit down at my desk, try to write something.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
Literary life used to be quite different in Britain in the years I lived there, from 1971 to 1989, because money was not a factor - no one made very much except from U.S. sales and the occasional windfall.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive - no more a great stack of manuscripts, letters, and notebooks from a writer's life, but only a tiny pile of disks, little plastic cookies where once were calligraphic marvels.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don't like other people. I'm not like that, I don't think.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I left Africa in 1966 it seemed to me to be a place that was developing, going in a particular direction, and I don't think that is the case now. And it's a place where people still kid themselves - you know, in a few years this will happen or that will happen. Well, it's not going to happen. It's never going to happen.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am happy being what I am.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.
- Love Is
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- Nov 07, 2020