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“I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.”
“There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.”
“I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.”
“I would always want printed books.”
“I am the freest author in the world.”
“I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.”
“I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.”
“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
“I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.”
“I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal.”
“Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.”
“I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write.”
“When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.”
“Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is.”
“There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.”
“Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.”
“Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.”
“But I was the most unashamed lone parent you were ever going to meet.”
“And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.”
“You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.”