Not Everyone Who Wants To

The Provincial Intellectual Is Doomed To Arguing At Low Level... There Is Still No Australian Literary World, Not In Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide. It Is Some Consolation To Realise That There Is No Literary World In Birmingham Or Los Angeles Either. I Have Heard There Is One In Montreal, But I Don't Believe It. The Literary World Is In London And New York, The Only Cities Big Enough To Sustain Magazines Which Can Afford To Reject Copy.

All Intellectual Tendencies Are Corrupted When They Consort With Power.

It's My Mission To Tell The Australians From Abroad In My Work That Australia Is A Wonderful Place.

First-rate Science Fiction Was, And Remains, More Interesting Than Second-rate Art.

Fiction Is Life With The Dull Bits Left Out.