I'm not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel.
Strength is one of those things you're supposed to have. You don't feel that...
Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.
To free us from the expectations of others to give us back to ourselves -...
Before I'd written movies I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot...
I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking what I'm looking at what I...
Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?
Writing fiction is for me a fraught business an occasion of daily dread for...
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties mental and physical but the burden of one's memories.
