The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.

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I like poking my nose into other people's lives.

I like poking my nose into other people's lives.

I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind...

I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind...

That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore...

That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore...

Now, I - for several years while I was researching this book, I felt quite...

Now, I - for several years while I was researching this book, I felt quite...

But I can't bear it when somebody who some man made a pass at -...

But I can't bear it when somebody who some man made a pass at -...

We were in a great, seething moment in the 1970s. There was a new Labour...

We were in a great, seething moment in the 1970s. There was a new Labour...

It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear...

It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear...

Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and...

Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and...

At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was...

At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was...

It's a terrific privilege to be able to see into somebody else's life.

It's a terrific privilege to be able to see into somebody else's life.

I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence.

I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence.

But there are some wounds that can never be healed.

But there are some wounds that can never be healed.

But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting...

But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting...

Well, I'm at some kind of crossroads in my life and I don't know which...

Well, I'm at some kind of crossroads in my life and I don't know which...

People demand a lot of the justice system and they demand things that it can't...

People demand a lot of the justice system and they demand things that it can't...

The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree...

The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree...

I think writers are very anxious.

I think writers are very anxious.