He Felt Changed, But There Was No

Do I Do As False Prophets Do And Puff Air Into Simulacra? Am I A Sorcerer--like Macbeth's Witches--mixing Truth And Lies In Incandescent Shapes? Or Am I A Kind Of Very Minor Scribe Of A Prophetic Book--telling Such Truth As In Me Lies, With Aid Of Such Fiction As I Acknowledge Mine, As Prospero Acknowledged Caliban.

Louis De Bernires Is In The Direct Line That Runs Through Dickens And Evelyn Waugh. . .he Has Only To Look Into His World, One Senses, For It To Rush Into Reality, Colours And Touch And Taste.

Once You Get Older, People Stop Listening To What You Say. It's Very Agreeable Once You Get Used To It.

What Literature Can And Should Do Is Change The People Who Teach The People Who Don't Read The Books.

I Hated Being A Novelist When I Was 20 - I Had Nothing To Write About.