If I Wrote A Play With Four

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 Asked To Be Writer In Residence At Edinburgh I Thought, You Can't Teach Poetry. This Is Ridiculous.

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.

If I Wrote A Play With Four Characters Every Single One Of Them Would Talk Like Me Regardless Of Age Or Sex.

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.