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Pat Barker quotes: Half the world's work's done by hopeless neurotics.

Half the world's work's done by hopeless neurotics.

Pat Barker quotes: Looking straight at the world is part of your duty as a writer.

Looking straight at the world is part of your duty as a writer.

Pat Barker quotes: Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.

Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.

Pat Barker quotes: What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.

What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.

Pat Barker quotes: Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession.

Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession.

Pat Barker quotes: When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.

When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.

Pat Barker quotes: You know you're walking around with a mask on, and you desperately want to take it off and you can't because everybody else thinks it's your face.

You know you're walking around with a mask on, and you desperately want to take it off and you can't because everybody else thinks it's your face.

Pat Barker quotes: First-person narrators can't die, so as long as we keep telling the story of our own lives we're safe. Ha bloody fucking Ha.

First-person narrators can't die, so as long as we keep telling the story of our own lives we're safe. Ha bloody fucking Ha.

Pat Barker quotes: Murder is only killing in the wrong place.

Murder is only killing in the wrong place.

Pat Barker quotes: 'Undertones of War' by Edmund Blunden seems to get less attention than the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but it is a great book.

'Undertones of War' by Edmund Blunden seems to get less attention than the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but it is a great book.

Pat Barker quotes: I believe that this war, upon which I entered as a war of defence and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and conquest.

I believe that this war, upon which I entered as a war of defence and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and conquest.

Pat Barker quotes: The result was I went nowhere.

The result was I went nowhere.

Pat Barker quotes: Sad but true that nothing puts a woman in her place more effectively than a chivalrous gesture performed in a certain manner.

Sad but true that nothing puts a woman in her place more effectively than a chivalrous gesture performed in a certain manner.

Pat Barker quotes: The white bowl of the street began to fill with darkness, from the pavement upwards, like somebody pouring tea into a cup.

The white bowl of the street began to fill with darkness, from the pavement upwards, like somebody pouring tea into a cup.

Pat Barker quotes: Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.

Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.

Pat Barker quotes: I don't think it's possible to c-call yourself a C-Christian and ... and j-just leave out the awkward bits.' -Wilfred Owen

I don't think it's possible to c-call yourself a C-Christian and ... and j-just leave out the awkward bits.' -Wilfred Owen

Pat Barker quotes: Half the world's work is done by hopeless neurotics.

Half the world's work is done by hopeless neurotics.

Pat Barker quotes: A society that devours its own young deserves no automatic or unquestioning allegiance.

A society that devours its own young deserves no automatic or unquestioning allegiance.

Pat Barker quotes: He's a bar-room socialist, if that's what you mean. Beer and revolution go in, piss come out

He's a bar-room socialist, if that's what you mean. Beer and revolution go in, piss come out

Pat Barker quotes: The past is a palimpsest. Early memories are always obscured by accumulations of later knowledge.

The past is a palimpsest. Early memories are always obscured by accumulations of later knowledge.

Pat Barker quotes: His happiness was almost painful, like circulation returning to a dead leg.

His happiness was almost painful, like circulation returning to a dead leg.

Pat Barker quotes: One began by finding mental illness mystifying, and ended by being still more mystified by health.

One began by finding mental illness mystifying, and ended by being still more mystified by health.

Pat Barker quotes: Another person's life, observed from the outside, always has a shape and definition that one's own life lacks.

Another person's life, observed from the outside, always has a shape and definition that one's own life lacks.