I Don't Think I've Ever Been Particularly

I Love The Working Class, And Everyone From It That I've Met, And Think They're Incredible Witty, Inventive - There's A Lot Of Poetry There. A Lot Of Rough Stuff As Well. What There Is, Too, Is An Awful Lot Of Expressiveness And Intelligence And Originality Down There. And A Lot Of Thwarted Intelligence.

Insects Are What Neurosis Would Sound Like, If Neurosis Could Make A Noise With Its Nose.

I Want Incremental Improvements. There's The Record Of All The Revolutionary And Violent Change And Extremism In General - It's Dreadful.

Often It Doesn't Occur To You What Kind Of Novel You're Writing Until Quite Late On.

My Father Always Had Doubts About The Booker Prize, Although They Evaporated On The Announcement That He Had Won It.