I Have Never Been Nervous In All

I Have Never Been Nervous In All My Life And I Have No Patience With People Who Are. If You Know What You Are Going To Do, You Have No Reason To Be Nervous. And I Knew What I Was Going To Do.

For A Long Period In My Life - It Lasted About 10 Years - I Had Writer's Block.

I Was A New Devotee Of Eastern Mysticism And Even Though I Did Not Join That Particular Group, I Could Well Have Done. They Seemed A Bit Extreme But I Regarded Myself As Not Quite Ready.

My Inner Critic Who Had Begun Piping Up About How Hopeless I Was And How I Didn't Know To Write.

In The Early 1930s, Flying From England To Australia Was The Longest Flight In The World. It Was Considered Extremely Dangerous And Hazardous, Pushing Pilots To The Limits Of Mechanical Skills And Human Endurance. Aviation Was Young.