But Really I'm Not Terribly Interested In

The Letter Of Application ... Should Be A Masterpiece Of Fiction, Papering Over All The Cracks. Get It Properly Typed On Decent Writing Paper. Never Let It Run Over The Page, People Get Bored With Reading.

But I Always Seem To Finish A Book And Then Think, Oh God, I've Got To Pay A Tax Bill, So I'd Better Write A Novel, So I Tend Not To Stop And Learn Word Processing.

People Always Assume That Bachelors Are Single By Choice And Spinsters Because Nobody Asked Them. It Never Enters Their Heads That Poor Bachelors Might Have Worn The Knees Of Their Trousers Out Proposing To Girls Who Rejected Them Or That A Girl Might Deliberately Stay Unmarried.

Without Doubt, Keep A Diary. From The Day You're Born, Keep A Diary, Because We All Forget Things So Quickly.

Go To Lots Of Interviews, At Least One A Month Even When You Don't Need A Job, To Keep In Training For When You Do.