Writing A Novel Is Not Merely Going

For Your Own Good Is A Persuasive Argument That Will Eventually Make A Man Agree To His Own Destruction.

Very Often The Law Of Extremity Demands An Attention To Irrelevance.

All Writers Are Exiles Wherever They Live And Their Work Is A Lifelong Journey Towards The Lost Land.

I Have Always Disliked The Morning, It Is Too Responsible A Time, With The Daylight Demanding That It Be 'faced' And (usually When I Wake For I Wake Late) With The Sun Already Up And In Charge Of The World, With Little Hope Of Anyone Usurping Or Challenging Its Authority. A Shot Of Light In The Face Of A Poor Waking Human Being And Another Slave Limps Wounded Into The Light-occupied Territory.

Life Is Hell, But At Least There Are Prizes. Or So One Thought.