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I Really Wasn't Equipped To Be A Writer When I Left Oxford. But Then I Set Out To Learn. I've Always Had The Highest Regard For The Craft. I've Always Felt It Was Work.

The First 50 Years Of The Cinema Were Absolutely Great Years. Original Minds Were At Work Establishing The Ways To Tell A Story. And What Is Happening Now Is A Copying, A Pastiche-ing Of What Was Done By Great Men.

Whenever I Have Had To Write Fiction, I've Always Had To Invent A Character Who Roughly Has My Background.

Each Book, Intuitively Sensed And, In The Case Of Fiction, Intuitively Worked Out, Stands On What Has Gone Before, And Grows Out Of It.

A Businessman Is Someone Who Buys At Ten And Is Happy To Get Out At Twelve. The Other Kind Of Man Buys At Ten, Sees It Rise To Eighteen And Does Nothing. He Is Waiting For It To Rise To Twenty. When It Drops To Two He Waits For It To Get Back To Ten.