Beware Of Your Most Implacable

All My Characters Have Got A Big Slice Of Me In Them. A Big Piece Of Me, Because It's My Dialogue And This Is The Way I Think And Talk.

Let It Simply Be Said That We Know More About The Details Of The Hours Immediately Before And The Actual Death Of Jesus, In And Near Jerusalem, Than We Know About The Death Of Any Other One Man In All The Ancient World.

You Know That Feeling When You Finish A Final Exam And You Think, 'i Never Want To Do That Again'? Well I Have The Same Feeling When I Finish A Novel. Each Time I Say, 'i Think I May Retire Now' And Then After Six Months The Ideas Start To Churn Again. I Could Never Stop.

My First Novel Was Rejected By Some Of The Most Eminent Publishers In The World. Starting Again Was A Real Wrench.

They Do Say That Socialism Is The Ideal Philosophy-just As Long As You Have Capitalists To Pay For It.