I Think That Thing About

You Could Not Tell A Story Like This. A Story Like This You Could Only Feel.

Then I Fell In Love And Everything Went To Hell.

It's True: One Of The Things That I've Always Thought About American Society Is That You Never Get The Sort Of Natural Politicisation Of Class Consciousness That You Would Get In The United Kingdom Or Even In Australia.

One Has To Be Able To Twist And Change And Distort Characters, Play With Them Like Clay, So Everything Fits Together. Real People Don't Permit You To Do That.

I Went To Work In 1962, And By '64 I Was Writing All The Time, Every Night And Every Weekend. It Didn't Occur To Me That, Having Read Nothing And Knowing Nothing, I Was In No Position To Write A Book.