Life Seemed Even More Of A Guessing

Very Few Of My Characters Are Based On People I've Known. It Is Too Constricting.

When I Was Still Quite Young I Had A Complete Presentiment Of Life. It Was Like The Nauseating Smell Of Cooking Escaping From A Ventilator: You Don't Have To Have Eaten It To Know That It Would Make You Throw Up.

Perhaps Love Is Essential Because It's Unnecessary.

The Better You Know Someone, The Less Well You Often See Them (and The Less Well They Can Therefore Be Transferred Into Fiction). They May Be So Close As To Be Out Of Focus, And There Is No Operating Novelist To Dispel The Blur.

Life Seemed Even More Of A Guessing Game Than Usual.