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I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one. I'm delighted to win them all, the whole lot.

They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now before I popped off.

I think kids ought to travel. I think it's very good to carry kids around. It's good for them. Of course it's tough on the parents.

I have ideas that I will probably never write now.

It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months.

I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.

I'm compulsive.

I was a nursemaid. And it was pretty boring.

I'm just a story teller.

Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.

Doris Lessing