What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
If love is what is held to make us immortal, hatred is the reverse.
Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.
Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in peoples minds with emotion.
The British have always made terrible parents.
I am a good and interested mother - which has surprised me.