Writers Of Either Gender Ought

When You Read A Great Book, You Don't Escape From Life, You Plunge Deeper Into It.

Poets Seem To Write More Easily About Love Than Prose Writers. For A Start, They Own That Flexible ‘i’…. Then Again, Poets Seem Able To Turn Bad Love – Selfish, Shitty Love – Into Good Love Poetry. Prose Writers Lack This Power Of Admirable, Dishonest Transformation. We Can Only Turn Bad Love Into Prose About Bad Love. So We Are Envious (and Slightly Distrustful) When Poets Talk To Us Of Love.

You Grew Old First Not In Your Own Eyes, But In Other People's Eyes; Then, Slowly, You Agreed With Their Opinion Of You.

I'm A Novelist, So I Can't Write About Ideas Unless They're Attached To People.

Well, To Be Honest I Think I Tell Less Truth When I Write Journalism Than When I Write Fiction.