The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.
I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.
The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood.
A writer helps to show you things you knew but didn't know you knew.
The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?
Politics is still crucially important. Our choices are vital, and we've got to make them and not just say, 'Oh they're all the same.' They are all the same in certain ways, alas - a political animal is such an animal.