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Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.

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What I find really attractive is something that's going to be a little dangerous. Something that might get me into trouble; you know, you turn up in London and you've just rewritten Dickens. And, of course, then you think, 'What have I done?'

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I don't think you have the right to shout about other people's private life.

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Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.

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Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.

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I never base characters on real people. There are people who do that but I really don't know how to do it.

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I'm always the one with the activist friends. I've been an activist very little.

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I think that thing about the destruction of the world is there all the time, it's there every day when we look out the window.

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It's true: one of the things that I've always thought about American society is that you never get the sort of natural politicisation of class consciousness that you would get in the United Kingdom or even in Australia.

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Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry.

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Biography

Nationality: Australian

Type: Novelist

Born: February 7th, 1943

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