I Never Stopped Reading.

What Society Doesn't Realize Is That In The Past, Ordinary People Respected Learning. They Respected Books, And They Don't Now, Or Not Very Much. That Whole Respect For Serious Literature And Learning Has Disappeared.

I'm Very Unhappy When I'm Not Writing.

Women's Emotions Are Still Fitted For A Kind Of Society That No Longer Exists. My Deep Emotions, My Real Ones, Are To Do With My Relationship With A Man. One Man. But I Don't Live That Kind Of Life, And I Know Few Women Who Do. So What I Feel Is Irrelevant And Silly.

Advice To Young Writers? Always The Same Advice: Learn To Trust Our Own Judgment.

Time And Distance From The First And Second World Wars Doesn't Seem To Lessen Their Horrors.