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Another Of Cicero's Maxims Was That If You Must Do Something Unpopular, You Might As Well Do It Wholeheartedly, For In Politics There Is No Credit To Be Won By Timidity.

Politics Is Never A Victory, It's Just The Remorseless Grinding Forward Of Events.

I Write As Well As I Can. I'm A Journalist At Heart, So It's The Story That Matters.

It Is Perfectly Legitimate To Write Novels Which Are Essentially Prose Poems, But In The End, I Think, A Novel Is Like A Car, And If You Buy A Car And Grow Flowers In It, You're Forgetting That The Car Is Designed To Take You Somewhere Else.

If You Go Back, 'the Great Gatsby' Would Be A Portrait Of The Rich And Fortune Made By Business.