‘I feel that criticism is a letter to the public which the author, since it is not directed to him, does not have to open and read.'
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‘It really is most extraordinary, having lived all these years as a cheerful but inconspicuous blue-stockinged, gray-haired, backseat publishing lady, to become a sort of show- stopper.’
92-year-old author of Somewhere Towards the End