 I don't think I've ever read an old book through from start to finish. Not after more than six months after writing it, that is. |
| After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time; I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around it. |
| Not only the style, but the way in which you don't exactly know what on earth has happened or is happening till about page two hundred - then it all becomes apparent in a blinding flash. |
| If they tell the police, the police will find out she was driving, and her career will be put into hell. |
| There is curiously little art concerning the efficacy of reason - perhaps simply because reason is not noticeably efficacious. |
| I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be in some less conventional form than straight narrative. |
| It connects with the theologians' point that you can say what God is not, but not (easily) what He is. |
| The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that has to be continually adapting itself to stay alive, with its identity. |
| To say a poem is absolute is saying nothing, because an ink blot can be absolute. Yet you put into it what you like. So it becomes totally relative. |
| It always strikes me how almost unbelievably bad are the early versions of my novels. |
