A word in a dictionary is very much like a car in a mammoth motor show - full of potential but temporarily inactive.

Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?

There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters.

The writer's life seethes within but not without.

Without class differences, England would cease to be the living theatre it is.

If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and violence. These remain the basic themes, they're the basic themes of Shakespeare whether you like it or not.

But what I do I do because I like to do.