If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business.
I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.
Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.
If one first gives himself to the Lord, all other giving is easy.
Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.
It is perfectly legitimate to write novels which are essentially prose poems, but in the end, I think, a novel is like a car, and if you buy a car and grow flowers in it, you're forgetting that the car is designed to take you somewhere else.