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I've got nothing very original to say myself.
I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.
My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.
People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.
Since Einstein developed his theory of relativity, and Rutherford and Bohr revolutionised physics, our picture of the world has radically changed.
Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.
The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.
The scribbler's life is never done.
The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessentially pessimistic tragedy: 'Moby-Dick.'
Truth comes to us mediated by human love.
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