“My father was in the First World War.”
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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.
What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.
When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.
I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'
