Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of new rewards.
Martin AmisAll novelists write in a different way, but I always write in longhand and then do two versions of typescript on a computer.
Martin AmisDickens is a much misunderstood and mis-approached writer, in that he tends to be read, particularly in the twentieth century, as a social commentator - like the great Victorians, a realist in his way. But he isn't at all like that. His genre is actually more like a fairy tale - weird transformations, long voyages from which people come back altered, parental mysteries, semi-magical twists.
Martin Amis