Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.
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Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.
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Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.
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Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie.
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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.
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I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.
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I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.
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I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.
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I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.
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I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.
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I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing; I didn't think I had to.
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I hate the word lesbian; it tells you nothing; its only purpose is to inflame.
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I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks.
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I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.
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I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped.
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I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.
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I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.
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I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.
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I think we still believe that ambition is for boys.
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I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.
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I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.
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I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.
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If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.
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If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.
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In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey.
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London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other.
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Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self.
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My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.
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My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere.
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Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.
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One room is always enough for one person. Two rooms is not enough for two people. That is one of the conundrums in life.
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Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.
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The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.
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There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.
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They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?
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We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.
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What you risk reveals what you value.
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What's invisible to us is also crucial for our own well-being.
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Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know.
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Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn't matter to me.
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With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy.
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You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?
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You play. You win. You play. You lose. You play.
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