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I Never Had Much Interest In Being A Child. As A Way Of Being It Seemed Flat, Failed To Engage.

What You're Normally Doing As A Writer Is Trying To Find The Narrative.

We Are Well Advised To Keep On Nodding Terms With The People We Used To Be, Whether We Find Them Attractive Company Or Not.

We Live Entirely, Especially If We Are Writers, By The Imposition Of A Narrative Line Upon Disparate Images.

I Did Consider Marriage And Motherhood Extreme And Doomed Commitments. Not Out Of Any Experience Of Them As Such, But It Was Simply The Way I Looked At Things.