Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves.

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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...

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 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...

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 -...

I think writers are very anxious.

I think writers are very anxious.

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

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

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.

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...

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...

But there are some wounds that can never be healed.

But there are some wounds that can never be healed.

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

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

The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the...

The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the...

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...

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...

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...