Objectivity Is Just Male Subjectivity.

The Plain Fact Is That She Never Really Liked Me, And Never Wanted Me. I Had Been A Mistake; And That, To Some Extent, Is What I Remain In My Own Eyes, To This Day. The Knowledge Never Goes, Can Never Be Undone. You Just Have To Find A Way To Live With It.

Contemporary Britain Seems An Endlessly Fascinating Place To Me - But If I Knew A Little Bit More About Other Places, And Other Times, Maybe It Wouldn't.

It Seems To Me That You Would Have To Write A Novel On A Very Small, Intimate Scale For It Not To Become Political.

As The Books Grew Bigger And More Ambitious, The Situations In Question Sometimes Became Political Ones, And So It Became Necessary To Start Painting In The Social Background On A Scale Which Eventually Became Panoramic.

But At The Same Time, I Have Trouble Keeping Things Out Of Books, Which Is Why I Don't Write Short Stories Because They Turn Into Novels.