Indeed — Why Should I

I Really Have To Think Of The Things Fiction Can Do That Film Can't And Play To The Strengths Of The Novel. With A Novel You Can Get Right Inside Somebody's Head.

So Why Not Become A Mongrel? It's Healthy

There Was Surely Nothing To Indicate At The Time That Such Evidently Small Incidents Would Render Whole Dreams Forever Irredeemable.

It Is All Very Well, In These Changing Times, To Adapt One's Work To Take In Duties Not Traditionally Within One's Realm; But Bantering Is Of Another Dimension Altogether. For One Thing, How Would One Know For Sure That At Any Given Moment A Response Of The Bantering Sort Is Truly What Is Expected? One Need Hardly Dwell On The Catastrophic Possibility Of Uttering A Bantering Remark Only To Discover It Wholly Inappropriate.

I Grew Up In Britain Before It Became A Multicultural Place, So In Many Ways I Have A Nostalgia For An England That's Vanished - The England Of My Childhood Has Actually Disappeared.