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The Secret For An Artist Is To Make That A Subject And Not Bang Your Head Against The Wall And Give Up. But To Turn It Into And Treat The New Subject Matter, Which Is One's Own Vanishing.

One Way Or Another, All The Poets Of The Thirties And Forties Reacted To Auden, Either By Rejecting Him Or Trying To Absorb Him.

Almost 70 Years Have Gone By, And I've Still Got That Feeling When I Write... Writing, For Me, Is Still It. It Has Always Been The Basis Of Everything I Do. I'm A Writer Who Performs, Not A Performer Who Writes. I Love The Act Of Writing. It's Still A Thrill For Me.

The First Language That I Learned Was Italian In Italy In The Early And Middle-'60s And I Had To Do That To Keep Up With The Young Men Who Were Courting My Wife.

They Had A... Dog Called Bluey. A Know Psychopath, Bluey Would Attack Himself If Nothing Else Was Available.