It is important not to trust people too much.

The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.

This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.

When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.

The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.

In our island myth this was the prescribed end of marriages like mine: the wife goes off with someone from the Cercle Sportif, outside whose gates at night the willingly betrayed husband waits in his motorcar. The circumstances were slightly.

If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.