"Life isn't just to be found, you have to work for it."

-- Angus Wilson

“When you make a choice as a writer about what it is you want to write, and what it is you're going to spend six months thinking about, you have to fall in love.”

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“The difficulty with pragmatic arguments for a religion is that truths do not always "work", and beliefs that "work" are by no means always true.”
“Iraq has no history of ethnic conflict.”
“life is the greatest gift that could ever be conceived ... A daffodil pushing up through the dark earth to the spring, knowing somehow deep in its roots that spring and light and sunshine will come, has more courage and more knowledge of the value of life than any human being I've met.”
“The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.”
“Itâ€™s one thing to be the greatest; itâ€™s another thing to be necessary. The best are the most necessary: those who take less than they give and love more than they hate.”
“How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.”
“Every day I'd say I look different. Sometimes I look really formal, sometimes I love the classic Stella McCartney, Chloe Sevigny and Gwyneth Paltrow thing. Other days I like being rock star and wearing leather jackets and studs. I love wearing Burberry - it's the perfect combination of formal and punky.”

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