I Read Very Little Contemporary Anything.

I Write What I Call 'novels Of Consolation' For People Who Are Bright And Sophisticated.

The Printing Presses Of The State Treasuries Cranked Out Reams Of Paper Currency- Showing Wise Kinds And Blissful Martyrs- While Bankers Wept And Peasants Starved.

I Expect That My Readers Have Been To Europe, I Expect Them To Have Some Feeling For A Foreign Language, I Expect Them To Have Read Books - There Are A Lot Of People Like That! That's My Audience.

Live Today, For Tomorrow We Die.

Once You Have Your Characters, They Tell You What To Write, You Don't Tell Them.