The aim of those who try to control thought is always the same. They find one single explanation of the world, one system of thought and action that will (they believe) cover everything; and then they try to impose that on all thinking people.
Unless there's a grassroots movement of some sort, with TV and the media in general in the hands of fewer and fewer people - the Murdochians, you know - all we hear is the one point of view. There has to be something communal.
Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.
I think it's much more natural as a writer to want to tell one story rather than lots of small stories that are half an hour long.
All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning.
Let it be fact, one feels, or let it be fiction; the imagination will not serve under two masters simultaneously.
I am a big believer in the fact that all authors really write only one book.
