But I Hang On To Books. I

I Don't Care Whether A Book Is A First Edition Or Not. I'm Not A Bibliophile In That Word's Natural Sense.

I Used To Have A Great Love For Dostoyevsky And Tolstoy, The Big Boys Of The Last Century.

When I Was Asked To Be Writer In Residence At Edinburgh I Thought, You Can't Teach Poetry. This Is Ridiculous.

There Are Some Friends You Don't Meet For Twenty Years And When You Meet Them Again It's As If No Twenty Years Has Happened - You're Lucky When That Happens. I Feel The Same About Books.

All I Write About Is What's Happened To Me And To People I Know, And The Better I Know Them, The More Likely They Are To Be Written About.