To Each Our Own Hamlet.

Literature Is Claimed To Be A Mirror Of The World,” I Said, “but The Outlanders Are Fooling Themselves. The Bookworld Is As Orderly As People In The Realworld *hope* Their Own World To Be—it Isn’t A Mirror, It’s An Aspiration.

I Work Very Much On The Principle That Anything Created By Mankind Has Mischief And Error Hardwired Into Its Inception.

Sometimes I Don't Know Whether I'm Thening Or Nowing.

Agents And Publishers Only Want One Thing - Good Writing.

Maybe Those Sorts Of Yes-or-no Life-and-death Decisions Are Easier To Make Because They Are So Black And White. I Can Cope With Them Because It's Easier. Human Emotions, Well. . .they're Just A Fathomless Collection Of Grays And I Don't Do So Well On The Midtones.