I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate and...
I don't believe there's any inherent darkness at the center of religion at...
London in the '70s was a pretty catastrophic dump I can tell you. We had...
I apologize for being obvious but every time I watch the curtain come down...
True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.
Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite...
One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error...
By concentrating on what is good in people by appealing to their idealism...
A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable...
In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.
My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had....
One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?
Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
