Life Is Elsewhere. Cross Frontiers.

Nobody Wants To Read A 600 Page Book In Which The Author Is Fabulous Throughout.

Stories In Families Are Colossally Important. Every Family Has Stories: Some Funny, Some Proud, Some Embarrassing, Some Shameful. Knowing Them Is Proof Of Belonging To The Family.

People Would Come And Threaten Them. And They Would Respond By Putting The Book In The Window. Behind That, The Publishers, Many Of Whom Were Menaced And Receiving Anonymous Phone Calls Of The Very Menacing Kind And So, Almost Everybody - Not Everybody, But Almost Everybody Held The Line.

I'm A Novelist. Fortunately I Don't Have To Rule The World.

It Is Very, Very Easy Not To Be Offended By A Book. You Just Have To Shut It.