I'd Never Have Written The Big Books

It's A Good Idea To Wait A Few Months Before Joining Anything When You Arrive At A Village. A Bookseller Friend Who Retired To Nearby Oxfordshire, And Was Worried He Might Be Bored, Got Himself On To Every Village Committee In The First Six Months, And Spent The Next Ten Years Extricating Himself.

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.

I Was So Flattered That Someone Wanted Me To Write A Book, I Said I Would. It Was Published In 1969.

The Only Thing A Whirlwind Courtship Does Is Blow Dust In Everyone's Eyes.

The Male - I Have Found - Is A Domestic Animal Which, If Treated With Firmness And Kindness, Can Be Trained To Do Most Things.