All History, Of Course, Is The History

The Pleasure Of Writing Fiction Is That You Are Always Spotting Some New Approach, An Alternative Way Of Telling A Story And Manipulating Characters; The Novel Is Such A Wonderfully Flexible Form.

Mythology Is Much Better Stuff Than History. It Has Form; Logic; A Message.

The Day Is Refracted, And The Next And The One After That, All Of Them Broken Up Into A Hundred Juggled Segments, Each Brilliant And Self-contained So That The Hours Are No Longer Linear But Assorted Like Bright Sweets In A Jar.

All History, Of Course, Is The History Of Wars.

Wars Are Fought By Children. Conceived By Their Mad Demonic Elders, And Fought By Boys.