I Had Wanted Life Not To Bother

When You Read A Great Book, You Don't Escape From Life, You Plunge Deeper Into It.

All Bad Things Are Exaggerated In The Middle Of The Night. When You Lie Awake, You Only Think Of Bad Things.

The Better You Know Someone, The Less Well You Often See Them (and The Less Well They Can Therefore Be Transferred Into Fiction). They May Be So Close As To Be Out Of Focus, And There Is No Operating Novelist To Dispel The Blur.

History Isn't What Happened, History Is Just What Historians Tell Us.

Well, To Be Honest I Think I Tell Less Truth When I Write Journalism Than When I Write Fiction.