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To Read A Newspaper For The First Time Is Like Coming Into A Film That Has Been On For An Hour. Newspapers Are Like Serials. To Understand Them You Have To Take Knowledge To Them; The Knowledge That Serves Best Is The Knowledge Provided By The Newspaper Itself.

It's Very Attractive To People To Be A Victim. Instead Of Having To Think Out The Whole Situation, About History And Your Group And What You Are Doing... If You Begin From The Point Of View Of Being A Victim, You've Got It Half-made. I Mean Intellectually.

I Still Think It's Really Quite Wonderful When I Read A Sentence Of Mine And It Has That Quality Of Lastingness.

I've Never Abandoned The Novel.

I Really Wasn't Equipped To Be A Writer When I Left Oxford. But Then I Set Out To Learn. I've Always Had The Highest Regard For The Craft. I've Always Felt It Was Work.