"There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic."

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"There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic."

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"I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art."

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"I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me."

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"Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children's writer married to a poet."

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"I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature."

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"I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century."

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