Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love.
People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.
I never really know the title of a book until it's finished.
I don't write for any particular kind of person.
Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write.
I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination.