I wouldn't have thought that the techniques of story-telling, which is what the novel is after all, can vary much because there are two things involved.There's a story and there's a listener, whose attention you have to keep. Now the only way in which you can keep a reader's attention to a story is in his wanting to know what is going to happen next. This puts a fairly close restriction on the method you must use.

I also know Patrick White in Australia, both personally and as a writer, and Salman Rushdie in India.

Which is better--to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?

Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars.

One's intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.

He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven back by the tide, his footprints became bays in which they were trapped and gave him the illusion of mastery.

Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?