When I Was A Child I Had

There Are Always Two People Involved In Cruelty, Aren't There? One To Be Vicious And Someone To Suffer! And What's The Use Of Getting Rid Of - Of Wickedness, Say - In The Outside World If You Let It Creep Back Into Things From Inside You?

Time Was Too Much A Part Of Love, For Even In Fairytales The Proof Of Love Was Not Its First Moment, But Its Latest Ones - That People Lived Happily Ever After. Love At First Sight Was Nothing But Infatuation Until Proved By Time.

My Theory Is That I Decided To Be A Writer When I Was About Seven, But Of Course It Is Not As Simple As That. Like Most Writers, I Had To Work At Other Things To Earn A Living And Wrote Mainly In The Evenings, Often Very Late At Night, For Many Years.

People Can Say What They Like About The Eternal Verities, Love And Truth And So On, But Nothing's As Eternal As The Dishes.

I Had To Wait For A Long Time Before I Could Support Myself With Writing. However, Being A Writer Is What I Have Most Wanted To Be, From The Time I Was A Child.