What I Like About Writing Is The

I Am A Closet Birdwatcher. I Can Identify Southern African Species, But It Irks Me I Can Barely Tell A Jay From A Blackbird In The U.k.

Write For Yourself, Not For A Perceived Audience. If You Do, You'll Mostly Fall Flat On Your Face, Because It's Impossible To Judge What People Want. And You Have To Read. That's How You Learn What Is Good Writing And What Is Bad. Then The Main Thing Is Application. It's Hard Work.

What I Like About Writing Is The Sense Of Godlike Power It Gives You.

A Man Follows The Path Laid Out For Him. He Does His Duty To God And His King. He Does What He Must Do, Not What Pleases Him. God's Truth, Boy, What Kind Of World Would This Be If Every Man Did What Pleased Him Alone? Who Would Plough The Fields And Reap The Harvest, If Every Man Had The Right To Say, 'i Don't Want To Do That.' In This World There Is A Place For Every Man, But Every Man Must Know His Place.

Every Time One Of My Books Sells A Million Copies In Paperback, Pan Macmillan Gives Me A Gold Statuette Of Pan. I Have About 20 Of Them.