I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.
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I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
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Africa has no future.
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