There is one mind common to all individual men
I have no patience with up-themselves authors who complain about having to trail round a few bookshops signing stock.
Increasingly, those who used to teach and write critical or theoretical texts are writing fiction, poetry and so on; and kinds of texts are being produced that call for budding readers rather different from those who studied literature in the past.
The idea that a student can write a sonnet or a novel without having a sound understanding about its history, and where it fits into literature as a whole, seems to me to be manifestly daft.
I'm not trying to write cinematic novels, but I have been told several times that my style is cinematic.
Belgium is a country with a split personality.
I always have lots of zany ideas for promotional stuff as publication nears.
If they do kill me, I shall never die another death.
There is no comfort looking forth nor back, The present gives the lie to all her past.
I made Simon Cowell look stupid once. He is terrified of presenting so I gave him the microphone and walked away. He hates interviewing people it means the focus is off him.
Only to youth will spring be spring.