I Do Not Understand How On Earth

The Stories I Create Are Never As Awful As Reality.

Although Many Of His Other Novels Are Brilliant There Is A Power In 'oliver Twist' That I Believe Dickens Never Managed To Retrieve. It Is As If He Was Sent To This Earth With The Sole Purpose Of Writing This Book.

As A Writer, I Am An Intellectual. I Believe In The Ideals Of The Enlightenment, I Believe In The Written Word, In Dialogue And In Truth. I Hate Lies More Than Anything Else. Most Of The Time I React By Writing.

To Grow Up Is To Wonder About Things; To Be Grown Up Is To Slowly Forget The Things You Wondered About As A Child.

I Remembered Her Once Saying That Life Was Like Your Shoes. You Couldn't Simply Expect Or Imagine That Your Shoes Would Fit Perfectly. Shoes That Pinched Your Feet Were A Fact Of Life.