There is little point in teaching anything backwards. The whole object of life, Headmistress, is to go forwards.
Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go to one's grave without having directed. It's a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.
I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a Don or something.
I'd probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I've always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing.
Poetry is not made to be sucked up like a child's milkshake, it is much better sipped like a precious malt whisky.
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