People Who Can Write A Book Usually

But I Always Seem To Finish A Book And Then Think, Oh God, I've Got To Pay A Tax Bill, So I'd Better Write A Novel, So I Tend Not To Stop And Learn Word Processing.

But Really I'm Not Terribly Interested In What I Eat.

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.

I'd Never Have Written The Big Books In London.

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