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To know you will be lonely is not the same as being lonely.
Australia is my lens. I cannot see the world any other way.
If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.
Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.
Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.
Nothing bad can happen to a writer. Everything is material.
Should you protect profits? Yes. But run for the hills? No.
I have given my word that only death will take me from you.
I try to go to the gym three times a week, and I swim, too.
I am a good and interested mother - which has surprised me.
I am the happiest writing and being with the people I love.
We don't write what we know. We write what we wonder about.
But put two librarians' heads together, and mountains move.
Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life.
And if humanity is the last war, then I am the battlefield.
There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.
The difficulty is not to write, but to write what you mean.
To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.
Three things I never lends - my 'oss, my wife, and my name.
Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.
There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.
Most working days I can be at my desk for nine hours a day.
You can't judge an internal injury by the size of the hole.
No story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old.
I'm a novelist. Fortunately I don't have to rule the world.
Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.
To him who has nothing it is forbidden not to relish filth.
Suffering is the main condition of the artistic experience.
Let's go." "We can't." "Why not?" "We're waiting for Godot.
Artists are always the Johnny Appleseeds of gentrification.
After eating a hundred mice, the cat makes a hadj to Mecca.
Everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified.
Let us respect even error when it has its source in virtue.
Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense.
And things were back to normal except we were just friends.
The thing is some girls think they can actually change guys
Our concerns aren't always appropriate or morally elevated.
I am, of course, romanticizing; a chronic tendency of mine.
My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.
Before, you were only a dream. Now you're a dream come true
You don't talk quite like a girl who has had no advantages.
I don't consciously do anything to maintain a unique voice.
Someday it'll all be done by machine. Information machines.
She would give them order. She would create constellations.
Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind.
Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.
Everything was such a damned nice idea when it was an idea.
Time is light, time is dark. You either dance, or you fall.
If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.