We All Try To Forget What Hurts

I Did A Complete Rewrite Of 650 Pages In Two Weeks.

Mystery Writers' Conventions Are Usually Good, And This One Has Been Excellent And Extremely Well Prepared And Thought Out In Advance. A Lot Of People Have Given Their Time And Their Skill, And A Good Deal Of Wit, And Anchorage Has Made Us Extraordinarily Welcome.

You Start At The End, And Then Go Back And Write And Go That Way. Not Everyone Does, But I Do. Some People Just Sit Down At The Page And Start Off. I Start From What Happened, Including The Why.

The Men Who Cannot Laugh At Themselves Frighten Me Even More Than Those Who Laugh At Everything.

I Was Born In London, England, In 1938, A Few Months Before The War, And Spent The First Years Of My Life There, Although I Was Evacuated A Couple Of Times For Short Periods. My Schooling Was Very Interrupted, Both By Frequent Moves And By Ill Health.