In England People Are Very Proud Of

We Cannot Understand All The Traits We Have Inherited. Sometimes We Can Be Strangers To Ourselves.

I Think When You See So Many Hindu Temples Of The 10th Century Or Earlier Disfigured, Defaced, You Realise That Something Terrible Happened. I Feel The Civilisation Of That Closed World Was Mortally Wounded By Those Invasions The Old World Is Destroyed. That Has To Be Understood. Ancient Hindu India Was Destroyed.

Some Writers Can Only Deal With Childhood Experience, Because It's Complete. For Another Kind Of Writer, Life Goes On, And He's Able To Keep Processing That As Well.

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.

If It Was Europe That Gave Us On The Coast Some Idea Of Our History, It Was Europe, I Feel, That Also Introduced Us To The Lie.