I Thought Of Myself As A Writer

All Over The World Today, Not Just In The Totalitarian Countries, Assiduous Functionaries In Ministries Of Truth Are Clubbing History Dumb And Rendering Language Insensible.

There Is Music In Words, And It Can Be Heard You Know, By Thinking.

If You Feel A Bump On Page One Hundred, It May Be You Went Off On Page Fifty.

I Have Committed Many Sins In My Life. This Precise Sin-the Sin Against Poets-is Without Absolution.

There Is Really No Fiction Or Non-fiction; There Is Only Narrative. One Mode Of Perception Has No Greater Claim On The Truth Than The Other; That The Distance Has Perhaps To Do With Distance - Narrative Distance - From The Characters; It Has To Do With The Kind Of Voice That Is Talking, But It Certainly Hasn't To Do With The Common Distribution Between Fact And Imagination.