Great Writing Can Be Done In Biography,

Home Is, I Suppose Just A Child's Idea. A House At Night, And A Lamp In The House. A Place To Feel Safe.

Whatever Extra There Is In Me At Any Given Moment Isn't Fully Formed. I Am Hardly Aware Of It; It Awaits The Next Book. It Will - With Luck - Come To Me During The Actual Writing, And It Will Take Me By Surprise

I Grew Up In A Small Place And Left It When I Was Quite Young And Entered The Bigger World.

In A Way My Reputation Has Become That Of The Curmudgeon.

Making A Book Is Such A Big Enterprise.