He is a failed playwright, a successful though unsatisfied screenwriter and a hopeful novelist. The conflict between the screen and the novel, between the image and the word, is one of the great problems of our age. Words have taken a terrible beating. Cinema-writing goes for violence quick action and high sex. I don't find very explicit sex erotic.
Most pornography is like a bag of ice.
Reading it is a heady, thought-provoking experience. There's an enormous difference between the English and the Welsh, Scots and Irish. I feel much closer to Americans than to the Welsh, Scots and Irish. What fascinates me about the English is the deceitfulness, the way they very rarely say what they actually think. I suffer from it like everyone of my type and background.