Humpty Had Always Sat On Walls, It

Writing Is Not Something You Can Do Or You Can't. It's Not Even Something That 'other People Do' Or 'for Smart People Only' Or Even 'for People Who Finished School And Went To University'. Nonsense. Anyone Can Do It. But No-one Can Do It Straight Off The Bat. Like Plastering, Brain Surgery Or Assembling Truck Engines, You Have To Do A Bit Of Training - Get Your Hands Dirty - And Make Some Mistakes.

The Inspiration Comes From Everywhere, From What I Grew Up With. There's So Much Silliness And Nonsense In The World That We Regard As Normal Working Procedure. The Satirical Point Of The View May Be To Counterpoint That. The Way We Look At Classics Has Been Hijacked By The Intelligentsia - Shakespeare Is Highbrow And Seen As Something Clever People Do, Which Isn't Right At All. I Basically Pull Inspiration From Everywhere.

Sometimes, A Word Succeeds Beyond The Wildest Dreams Of Its Creators, Like A Virus Sent Into The World To Infect Common Speech.

The Safest Course Was Actually The Simplest-do Nothing At All And Hope Everything Turned Out For The Best. It Wasn't A Great Plan, But It Had The Benefits Of Simplicity And A Long Tradition.

Librarying Is A Harder Profession Than The Public Realizes, He Said. People Think It's All Rubber Stamps, Knowing That Dewey 521 Is Celestial Mechanics And Saying 'try Looking Under Fiction' Sixty Eight Times A Day.