It wasn't until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you've got to write your own books and nobody else's, and then everything followed from there.
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Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.
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We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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If you... scaled down human beings, scaled down society, if you land with a group of little boys, they are more like a scaled-down version of society than a group of little girls would be.
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A novel ensures that we can look before and after, take action at whatever pace we choose, read again and again, skip and go back. The story in a book is humble and serviceable, available, friendly, is not switched on and off but taken up and put down, lasts a lifetime.
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