I Don't Think Of Myself All The

In Some Ways I'm A Reticent Man, And For Quite A Number Of Years There Wasn't Very Much Of My Real True Deep Feelings In My Writing.

But I Hang On To Books. I Love Them. I Even Think They're Very Nice Decor In A Room - Far Better Than Paintings... That's Not Quite True!

All Those Authors There, Most Of Whom Of Course I've Never Met. That's The Poetry Side, That's The Prose Side, That's The Fishing And Miscellaneous Behind Me. You Get An Affection For Books That You've Enjoyed.

When I Was A Teacher, Teachers Would Come Into My Classroom And Admire My Desk On Which Lay Nothing Whatever, Whereas Theirs Were Heaped With Papers And Books.

All I Write About Is What's Happened To Me And To People I Know, And The Better I Know Them, The More Likely They Are To Be Written About.