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

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

When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books.

When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me.

And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody.

Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.

I don't think of myself all the time.