By The Tits Of Holy Agnes

Some Of These Things Are True And Some Of Them Lies. But They Are All Good Stories.

I Only Became A Novelist Because I Thought I Had Missed My Chance To Become A Historian.

Insight Cannot Be Taken Back. You Cannot Return To The Moment You Were In Before.

When I Began To Read As An Adult, I Read Almost Exclusively Novelists Of A Generation Back. I Did The Russians, Then I Started Getting More Up To Date. When You Become Published And Become A Reviewer, Piles Of Books Come Along And You Are Pushed By Fashion And What You Are Commissioned To Do.

Busyness, I Feel Increasingly, Is The Writer's Curse And Downfall. You Read Too Much And Write Too Readily, You Become Cut Off From Your Inner Life, From The Flow Of Your Own Thoughts, And Turned Far Too Much Towards The Outside World.