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I tell you one thing that makes me feel I haven't wasted my life, and that is I've got some grandchildren. You can't overestimate the... →
At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society.
I think writers are very anxious.
That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.
The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.
I don't believe that anything's totally invented... If you're completely inventing a story, there wouldn't be an urge to tell it.
I don't understand my own sporadic collapses into passivity. Perhaps I never will.
Janet Malcolm's probably the writer I most admire and who's most influenced me.
But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both... →
Now, I - for several years while I was researching this book, I felt quite obsessed by thoughts about sentencing, punishment, how judges arrive at... →
As in all matters involving love, which has so many different meanings, you find that the feeling that we label 'love' is not a simple... →
Courts are supposed to be places of reason. But this, of course, is a fantasy. I mean, there is reason being used as a technique. But courts, in... →
I just... my childhood seems, when I look back, to be largely composed of reading, lying on the bed. I mean, my mother was always shouting, 'Go... →
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