I Don't Think You Have The Right

I Think It's Really Boring, From The Point Of View Of The Novelist, To Write About Yourself. Tedious. But That's Very Hard To Explain To People Who Really Don't Believe In The Possibility Of Invention.

I Have Never Begun A Novel Which Wasn't Going To Stretch Me Further Than I Had Ever Stretched Before.

The Great Thing About Using The Past Is That It Gives You The Most Colossal Freedom To Invent. The Research Is Necessary, Of Course, But No One Writes A Novel To Dramatically Illustrate What Everybody Already Knows.

I'm Interested In Where We Are, Where We're Going, Where We've Come From.

It's True: One Of The Things That I've Always Thought About American Society Is That You Never Get The Sort Of Natural Politicisation Of Class Consciousness That You Would Get In The United Kingdom Or Even In Australia.