It Is Perseverance, And Not Genius That

What Is Leadership, After All, But The Blind Choice Of One Route Over Another And The Confident Pretense That The Decision Was Based On Reason

I Think It's Very, Very Hard Not To Go Slightly Crazy If You're In The Top In Politics, Especially If You're There For A Long Time.

A Book Unwritten Is A Delightful Universe Of Infinite Possibilities. Set Down One Word, However, And It Immediately Becomes Earthbound. Set Down One Sentence And It’s Halfway To Being Just Like Every Other Bloody Book That’s Ever Been Written.

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.

Orwell Has Always Been A Huge Influence On Me.