I, Personally, Have Found Reading A Continual

Being A Librarian Certainly Helped Me With My Writing Because It Made Me Even More Of A Reader, And I Was Always An Enthusiastic Reader. Writing And Reading Seem To Me To Be Different Aspects Of A Single Imaginative Act.

There Are Certainly Times When My Own Everyday Life Seems To Retreat So The Life Of The Story Can Take Me Over. That Is Why A Writer Often Needs Space And Time, So That He Or She Can Abandon Ordinary Life And "live" With The Characters.

For In Some Ways The World Was Like A Shopping Centre, And He Himself Was A Doubtful Customer, Often Ineffectual, Being Talked Into Buying Things He Didn't Want, Things Indeed Which Nobody In Their Right Mind Would Want To Buy.

I Hope I Am Not Too Repetitive. However, Coming To Terms With Death Is Part Of The General Human Situation.

I've Never Actually Been A Fighter Myself - Fighting Tires Me Out And I'm Not An Efficient Fighter Anyway - But I Have Certainly Seen Other People Have Great Complicated Goes At One Another.