If One First Gives Himself To The

Tape Is The Archiving Champ And Has Been For Decades. Reliable, Less Expensive Than Disks And Available In Large-scale Robotic Systems That Store Petabytes.

Everyone Thinks Politics Will Just Go On The Way It Is. I Don't Agree.

It Is Perfectly Legitimate To Write Novels Which Are Essentially Prose Poems, But In The End, I Think, A Novel Is Like A Car, And If You Buy A Car And Grow Flowers In It, You're Forgetting That The Car Is Designed To Take You Somewhere Else.

I Was A Political Journalist; I Came To Writing Novels Through An Interest In Politics And Power.

For Me, As I Suspect For Most People, There Comes A Point Where You Have Enough. If You've Got £20 Million, Why Keep Going Until You've Got £100 Million Or £1,000 Million? Does Anyone Need Another Vast Yacht Or Private Jet Or A House Full Of Gold?