I Don't Mind Arguing With Myself. It's

I'd Like, Each Time Out As A Writer, To Reinvent Who I Am And What I'm Doing. That's One Of The Great Pleasures And Rewards Of The Occupation.

All We Can Ever Do Is Lay A Word In The Hands Of Those Who Have Put One In Ours.

Everything Interests Me.

The Job Of Taste Was To Thin The Insane Torrent Of Human Creativity Down To Manageable Levels. But The Job Of Appetite Was Never To Be Happy With Taste.

I Think That If The Novel's Task Is To Describe Where We Find Ourselves And How We Live Now, The Novelist Must Take A Good, Hard Look At The Most Central Facts Of Contemporary Life - Technology And Science.