People Don't Help Much.

The Thing Is - Fear Can't Hurt You Any More Than A Dream.

Philosophy And Religion-what Are They When The Wind Blows And The Water Gets Up In Lumps?

However You Disguise Novels, They Are Always Biographies.

I Also Know Patrick White In Australia, Both Personally And As A Writer, And Salman Rushdie In India.

When You Take A Child Who's Hollering Like Hell, Sit Him On Your Knee, And Say "once Upon A Time", You Stop Him Hollering. As Long As You Go On Telling Him A Story, He Will Listen. Novelists Who Neglect This Fundamental Effect Do So At Their Peril. They Become What Is Known As The Experimental Novelist, And An Experimental Novel Is Not Really A Novel At All.