Canadians Are Americans With No Disneyland.

At The Same Time, I Think Books Create A Sort Of Network In The Reader's Mind, With One Book Reinforcing Another. Some Books Form Relationships. Other Books Stand In Opposition. No Two Writers Or Readers Have The Same Pattern Of Interaction.

I Am Really Chained To My Computer These Days So I Work In My Bedroom, Which Is A Room I Have Worked In For Years And Years. It Is Just As Much An Office As A Bedroom, And During The Day, My Bed Is Rather Like An Extension Of My Desk.

When You Are Reading, Someone Has Done A Lot Of Work On Your Behalf, Someone Has Had Ideas And Has Then Written And Corrected And Improved Them So That They Can Be Shared.

Reading Is Very Creative - It's Not Just A Passive Thing. I Write A Story; It Goes Out Into The World; Somebody Reads It And, By Reading It, Completes It.

It Changes You For Ever, But You Are Changing For Ever Anyway.