Fear Can Give You Urgent Wings.

I Was Able To Work Out All Sorts Of Attitudes To Style And Event And Character, All Of Which Affected The Way I Came To Think About My Own Writing. I Believe That All Good Writers Are Original.

New Zealand Is The Only Country I Know Well Enough To Write About. It Can Sometimes Lead To Complications.

My Theory Is That I Decided To Be A Writer When I Was About Seven, But Of Course It Is Not As Simple As That. Like Most Writers, I Had To Work At Other Things To Earn A Living And Wrote Mainly In The Evenings, Often Very Late At Night, For Many Years.

I Hope I Am Not Too Repetitive. However, Coming To Terms With Death Is Part Of The General Human Situation.

There Are Always Two People Involved In Cruelty, Aren't There? One To Be Vicious And Someone To Suffer! And What's The Use Of Getting Rid Of - Of Wickedness, Say - In The Outside World If You Let It Creep Back Into Things From Inside You?