All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.

I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.

I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world.

All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.

Writers should provoke disagreement.

We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.

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.