Newspapers Are Even Worse For Me Than

I Was Brought Up In A Community, In A Family That Valued Such Things As Good Manners, And I Still Do.

There Was No Manifestation Of Contemporary Culture That Did Not Indicate To My Grandmother How Steadfast Was The Nation's Decline, How Merciless Our Mental And Moral Deterioration, How Swiftly All-embracing Our Final Decadence. I Never Saw Her Read A Book Again; But She Referred To Books Often - As If They Were Shrines And Cathedrals Of Learning That Television Had Plundered And Then Abandoned.

How We Love To Love Things For Other People; How We Love To Have Other People Love Things Through Our Eyes.

If I Have Any Advantage, Maybe, As A Writer, It Is That I Don't Think I'm Very Interesting. I Mean, Beginning A Novel With The Last Sentence Is A Pretty Plodding Way To Spend Your Life.

I Believe A Novel Should Be As Complicated And Involved As You're Capable Of Making It.