I've Never Abandoned The Novel.

Small Things Start Us In New Ways Of Thinking

What Matters In The End In Literature, What Is Always There, Is The Truly Good. And- Though Played Out Forms Can Throw Up Miraculous Sports Like The Importance Of Being Earnest Or Decline And Fall- What Is Good Is Always What Is New, In Both Form And Content. What Is Good Forgets Whatever Models It Might Have Had, And Is Unexpected; We Have To Catch It On The Wing.

It Was A Good Place For Getting Lost In, A City No One Ever Knew, A City Explored From The Neutral Heart Outward, Until After Many Years, It Defined Itself Into A Jumble Of Clearings Separated By Stretches Of The Unknown, Through Which The Narrowest Of Paths Had Been Cut.

The First 50 Years Of The Cinema Were Absolutely Great Years. Original Minds Were At Work Establishing The Ways To Tell A Story. And What Is Happening Now Is A Copying, A Pastiche-ing Of What Was Done By Great Men.

Writing Has To Support Itself.