Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.

The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.

A writer of books has to admit that film is the enemy, and that in my case I have been sleeping with the enemy.

The poem is a cry of the unborn heart. Yes, because the poem perfectly embodies the world, there is no world without poem.

Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and can lead to wars.

Implications of treason are fed like cubes of sugar to the twelve-headed animal which is justice. In ... opening remarks. In the way questions are asked. In support of lines of questioning where cases of treason are cited and the Judge endorses the relevance of the citation.

The act of composition is a series of discoveries.