Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.
I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest regard for the craft. I've always felt it was work.
The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand.
The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.