The Fact That You Can Only Do

Out Of Date, Perhaps, But Who Wasn't These Days? Out Of Date, But Loyal To His Own Time. At A Certain Moment, After All, Every Man Chooses: Will He Go Forward, Will He Go Back? There Was Nothing Dishounorable In Not Being Blown About By Every Little Modern Wind. Better To Have Worth, To Entrench, To Be An Oak Of One's Own Generation.

I Think That All Writers Feel Alienated. ... I Know That I Do. ... I Still Feel, As I Think Most Creative People Do, Absolutely Isolated.

I Mean, I'm In The Business Of Storytelling, Not Message Making.

I Don't Think That There Are Very Many Good Writers Who Don't Live Without A Sense Of Tension. If They Haven't Got One Immediately Available To Them, Then They Usually Manage To Manufacture It In Their Private Lives.

I Was Quite Able At The Insignificant Work I Did In Mi6, But Absolutely Dysfunctional In My Domestic Life. I Had No Experience Of Fatherhood. I Had No Example Of Marital Bliss Or The Family Unit.