History Is A Set Of Skills Rather

Fear Of Commitment Lies Behind The Fear Of Writing.

So Many Years Of Preparation, For What Was Called Adult Life: Was It For This?

[margaret Thatcher] Aroused Such Strong Loathing In So Many People. That's The Fact That Interests Me.

Like Every Writer, I'm Drawn By Unlikely Juxtapositions, Precisely-dated And Once-only Collisions Between People From Different Worlds.

I Am Not A Historian. I Don't See What I Do As Being A Rival To Biography.