Heaven Lies Around Us In Our Infancy.

I Don't Think They [contemporary Writers] Read Me Either. I Mean, If We're Concerned Genuinely With Writing, I Think We Probably Get On With Our Work.

I Am Not A Theologian Or A Philosopher. I Am A Story Teller.

Even If You Got Rid Of Paper, You Would Still Have Story-tellers. In Fact, You Had The Story-tellers Before You Had The Paper.

Don't Get Me Wrong. I Have Nothing Against This As A Method, But It Is Not What English Writers Do.

It Wasn't Until I Was 37 That I Grasped The Great Truth That You've Got To Write Your Own Books And Nobody Else's, And Then Everything Followed From There.