I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they`d never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!
For that reason you can`t write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music, or lying. You need to hear what you`re writing, and for that you need silence.
Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would. I`d spend all my life without ever going to China, but it wouldn`t matter, because there was all the rest of the worl...