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

Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.

And it's impossible for me to read Henry James.

All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed.

There are some friends you don't meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it's as if no twenty years has happened - you're lucky when that happens. I feel the same about books.

But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice decor in a room - far better than paintings... That's not quite true!

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