- Class Consciousness
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Curiosity
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was young and easily outraged, I would be upset when every fictional character I created was somehow reduced to 'autobiography.'
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Culture is the way for a country to know itself.
- Commonwealth
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Ignorance
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would be the worst person on earth to be called to write an account of someone else's life.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
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!
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father left school at the age of fourteen, so this was a man with no deep experience of formal education.
- Daughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was the daughter of a poor schoolteacher - well, that's a tautology - a country schoolteacher.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 want to go there.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
At school, I was fanatical about being a scientist.
- Expressed
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- Nov 07, 2020