Well, When I Was A Young Writer

The Process Hasn't Changed, But The Writer Has Developed. I Still Get Up Every Morning And Go To Work.

I Obviously Prefer Writing Novels But I Take My Journalism Very Seriously, And I Enjoy Doing It Between Novels. It Gives Me An Opportunity To Move In The Outside World.

And Furthermore Did You Know That Behind The Discovery Of America There Was A Jewish Financier?

In, 1950, At The Age, 19 I Dropped Out Of St. George William College In Montreal, As It Then Was, And Sailed For England On The Franconia. Foolishly, No Arrogantly, Believing I Could Put Canada And Its Picayune Problems Behind Me, Never Dreaming It Would Become The Raw Material Of Most Of My Fiction And Non-fiction. Or That I Would Care So Deeply About Its Surviving Intact.

If You Don't Count Some Of Jehovah's Injunctions, There Are No Humorists In The Bible.