If You Want To Know The Real

He Awoke At Six, As Usual. He Needed No Alarm Clock. He Was Already Comprehensively Alarmed.

Language Leads A Double Life - And So Does The Novelist. You Chat With Family And Friends, You Attend To Your Correspondence, You Consult Menus And Shopping Lists, You Observe Road Signs, And So On. Then You Enter Your Study, Where Language Exists In Quite Another Form - As The Stuff Of Patterned Artifice.

Religious Belief Is Without Reason And Without Dignity, And Its Record Is Near-universally Dreadful.

I Always Do My Draft In Long Hand Because Even The Ink Is Part Of The Flow.

The First Thing That Distinguishes A Writer Is That He Is Most Alive When Alone.