I Never Think About Poetry Except When

All Those Authors There, Most Of Whom Of Course I've Never Met. That's The Poetry Side, That's The Prose Side, That's The Fishing And Miscellaneous Behind Me. You Get An Affection For Books That You've Enjoyed.

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

I Was Very Interested In American Poetry For Many Years. Much Less Now.

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 Fish The Border Rivers, But Nowadays You Have To Queue Up For A Shot And I Can't Stand That.