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I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to not because someone's told me to.

Fay Weldon

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Fay Weldon
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 22
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Autobiographer
Essayist
Feminist
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Screenwriter
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Alvechurch
Worcestershire
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Writing is more than just the making of a series of comprehensible statements: it is the gathering in of connotations the harvesting of them, like blackberries in a good season, ripe and heavy, snatched from among the thorns of logic.
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Sound waves do not die out. They travel forever and forever. All our sentences are immortal. Our useless bleatings circle the universe for all eternity.
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Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually
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Ambition will, and should, always outstrip achievement.
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A 'weakness,' I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly developed.
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I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes.
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Of course you have to believe in destiny that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion.
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Writing is an act of generosity toward other people.
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Truly Alice, books are wonderful things to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be safe when you close the book and having finished it, discover you are changed, yet unchanged! To be able to visit the City of Invention at will, depart at will – that is all, really, education is about, should be about.
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Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
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When today's young woman says she isn't a feminist what she means is she isn't a lesbian and she doesn't hate men, she likes to wear make-up and she enjoys a laugh. In which she is no different from many an early feminist.
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She could see that to lose a sibling was hard: it could only seem unnatural:out of time, out of order, a vicious re-run of your own departure into nothingness.
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If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.
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Instinct' usually just means our conditioning to believe this or believe that, without thinking to investigate.
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Ask any woman in an arranged marriage. Love is the least stressful way out.
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There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die.
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If you put a woman in a man's position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind.
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People fail you, children disappoint you, thieves break in, moths corrupt, but an Order of the British Empire goes on for ever.
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Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.
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If you wake up in the morning with a great sense of the things that have to be done in the day in order to get through to the next day, you lose the sense of the day as any kind of end in itself.
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