As it is I'm a dated novelist, whom hardly anybody reads, or if they do, most of them don't understand what I am on about. Certainly I wish I had never written Voss, which is going to be everybody's a...
Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays.
I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt.
My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.