I Am An Old Consumer Of Papers.

Books Are Menaced By Books. Any Excess Of Information Produces Silence.

When One Starts Writing A Book, Especially A Novel, Even The Humblest Person In The World Hopes To Become Homer.

The Followers Must Feel Besieged.

I Developed A Passion For The Middle Ages The Same Way Some People Develop A Passion For Coconuts.

I Seem To Know All The Cliches, But Not How To Put Them Together In A Believable Way. Or Else These Stories Are Terrible And Grandiose Precisely Because All The Cliches Intertwine In An Unrealistic Way And You Can't Disentangle Them. But When You Actually Live A Cliche, It Feels Brand New, And You Are Unashamed.