I always value my large kitchen because it was better to do everything there, you wash up, you do everything, rather than messing up another room and I pop my typewriter just next to it. So I still write now but I was doing more writing when the chil...
I was assigned to the Waffen-SS but was never involved in any crime. Besides, I always felt the need to write about my experiences in a larger context one day. This has only developed recently, now that I have overcome my inner aversion to writing an...
When I was in fact a child, six and seven and eight years old, I was utterly baffled by the enthusiasm with which my cousin Brenda, a year and a half younger, accepted her mother's definition of her as someone who needed to go to bed at six-thirty an...
I'm starting to shake it off, I am quite self-conscious, and it's only when I'm playing roles that I can escape that. The older I get, the more people tell me it's absolutely fine to be the way you are with all your quirks and nuances, and I wish I'd...
When I was younger, I suppose I was interested in checking out as much about writing as I could: bad, weird, irritating, even things not-to-my-taste. Now I am less open. I will decide after a few pages if I want to stay in the world of the book, and ...
When I was younger, my mother and I, we'd have these crazy, crazy fights. Everyone would storm out mad, and the only way that I'd be able to express myself was to write her. We would write letters back and forth for days. When I'm writing, I feel uni...
As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by 'survi...
We generally write best of what we ourselves have seen.
In general we are least aware of what our minds do best.
I'm pretty indiscriminating, and I have awful taste, generally.
GOD means General Of Dominion.
Noises have generally been thought of as indistinct, but this is not true.
Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
As a child, I was always playing some generic child.
There are generations who watch Doctor Who together.
I don't make big grand gestures, generally.
Tax reform is a once-in-a-generation opportunity.
I want to be the bridge to the next generation.
The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil.
Every generation that comes from this family has to do better than the last.
Beauty, to me, is kind, generous, and people that are humble.
