Being Famous As A Writer Is Like

And It's Always Possible That You Will Not Get A Nice Review. So - And That's Enraging Of Course, To Get A Bad Review, You Can't Talk Back, And It's Sort Of Shaming In A Way.

It's Like Standing On The Edge Of A Cliff. This Is Especially True Of The First Draft. Every Day You're Making Up The Earth You're Going To Stand On.

Good Writing Of Course Requires Talent, And No One Can Teach You To Have Talent.

My Greatest Pleasure Is To Invent. My Continual Mad Ambition Is To Make Something True And Beautiful That Never Existed In The World Before.

It's True: One Of The Things That I've Always Thought About American Society Is That You Never Get The Sort Of Natural Politicisation Of Class Consciousness That You Would Get In The United Kingdom Or Even In Australia.