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I do write about obsession, but I don't think I have an obsession for writing. I'm not a compulsive writer. I like to watch obsession in other people, watch the way it makes them behave.

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I always write about subjects which attract me because if I didn't, it would be awful, a failure.

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My favourite book - 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford, which I have read about 20 times - is different from my favourite author, who is Iris Murdoch. I find her books exciting and unputdownable. Her characters are so carefully studied and in-depth; I love that.

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I don't mind being distracted.

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I always know what I'm going to write before I sit down.

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It sounds awful and sort of goody two-shoes, but I never eat between meals.

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I don't want to marry anybody, but I certainly wouldn't want to marry a bad novelist.

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I am curious about people. I want to know their secrets... because I am the last person to whom I would tell a secret; people tell me their secrets.

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I often think what it was like not to have much money. I don't think it's good for people to be born into money and not know what it is never to have it.

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I used to get an awful lot of letters, and they have almost all gone. I used to answer nearly all of them.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Writer

Born: February 17th, 1930

Died: May 2nd, 2015

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