I've Never Actually Been A Fighter Myself

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.

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?

There Are Certainly Times When My Own Everyday Life Seems To Retreat So The Life Of The Story Can Take Me Over. That Is Why A Writer Often Needs Space And Time, So That He Or She Can Abandon Ordinary Life And "live" With The Characters.

I Think I Am Too Interested In My Own Ideas To Copy Anyone Else's, But I Find That Other People's Imagery, The Flow Of Language In The Outside World, Games With Words, And Ideas About Relationships Are All Most Important To Me.

I Had To Wait For A Long Time Before I Could Support Myself With Writing. However, Being A Writer Is What I Have Most Wanted To Be, From The Time I Was A Child.