The master swordsman isn't interested in killing people. He only wants to perfect his art.

The master swordsman isn't interested in killing people. He only wants to perfect his art.

I didn't want to go to sleep knowing I would just wake up in the morning.

I once read somewhere that Sean Connery left school at the age of 13 and later went on to read Proust and Finnegans Wake and I keep expecting to meet an enthusiastic school leaver on the train, the type of person who only ever reads something because it is marvellous (and so hated school). Unfortunately the enthusiastic school leavers are all minding their own business.

Perhaps this is the root of all evil, that gardeners are not put in charge of our schools.

There are people who think contraception is immoral because the object of copulation is procreation. In a similar way there are people who think the only reason to read a book is to write a book.

The writer who is literally an addict, the writer who can't help himself, the writer who HAS to write, can never be anything but an amateur, because the industry requires the professional to put writing on hold not just for a day or two, or a week, but for years.