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When I began to make some money, I really wanted to have a home.

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Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies.

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Many aspects of the writing life have changed since I published my first book, in the 1960s. It is more corporate, more driven by profits and marketing, and generally less congenial - but my day is the same: get out of bed, procrastinate, sit down at my desk, try to write something.

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Literary life used to be quite different in Britain in the years I lived there, from 1971 to 1989, because money was not a factor - no one made very much except from U.S. sales and the occasional windfall.

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If you're a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don't like other people. I'm not like that, I don't think.

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When I left Africa in 1966 it seemed to me to be a place that was developing, going in a particular direction, and I don't think that is the case now. And it's a place where people still kid themselves - you know, in a few years this will happen or that will happen. Well, it's not going to happen. It's never going to happen.

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I think I understand passion. Love is something else.

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I think that love isn't what you think it is when you're in your twenties or even thirties.

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Love doesn't last.

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The more you write, the more you're capable of writing.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: April 10th, 1941

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