And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping.

People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share.

I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that.

I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century.

If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age or sex.

And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping.

Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.