When I Was Younger, I

I Avoid Talking About The Way I Work. But In Avoiding It I Seem Only To Have Encouraged People To Focus Their Fantasies About Me In An Ever More Fantastical Way On The Details That Are Not At All At The Centre Of The Work.

I Don't Know What Impression You Might Have Of The Way I Live. I Live In A Quiet Place. I Do Not Live As A Hermit, Though Other People Would Prefer It If I Did.

I Don't Deal At All Well With The Relative Amount Of Stuff I Have To Face Already.

I Come From Not Just A Household But A Country Where The Finesse Of Language, Well-balanced Sentence, Structure, Syntax, These Things Are Driven Into Us, And My Parents, Bless Them, Are Great Custodians Of The English Language.

Quite Honestly, If I Were Doing Work Related To A Living Being Or Historical Being Where There Was Visual Or Audio Recordings Available, I Would Find That Extremely Difficult Because I Don't Know How You Would Avoid The Process Of Mimicry. And Mimicry, To Me At Any Rate, Is A Very Dull Prospect.