henryjames, once you get stuck into henryjames he is impossible to abandon, isn't he? will never abandon henry james. i will always those go back every few years and reread the awkward age. that is the thing. it is not that i want to read more james. i want to just keep rereading the ones that i love. it is interesting to look at that in respect of your own narrative because as i said narrative has the feeling of it has a pulse that just seems to keep going. you are a great one for concealing the inevitable artifice of writing. good. whereas james was a great one for putting the inevitable artifice of writing... absolutely. i wasn't influenced by him, ijust love him. i suspectjust reading your prose that you're one of these people once you start a story, although you work at it very hard, and i have no doubt you are very meticulous, it seems to just rattle along. the reason is that i make it all up in my head for a year or two in advance and really work out all of the pieces. in your head rather than on a piece of paper? in my head. don't take notes. then i sit down an

henryjames, once you get stuck into henryjames he is impossible to abandon, isn't he?t to just keep rereading the ones that i love. it is interesting to look at that in respect of your own narrative because as i said narrative has the feeling of it has a pulse that just seems to keep going. you are a great one for concealing the inevitable artifice of writing. good. whereas james was a great one for putting the inevitable artifice of writing... absolutely. i wasn't influenced by him, ijust love him. i suspectjust reading your prose that you're one of these people once you start a story, although you work at it very hard, and i have no doubt you are very meticulous, it seems to just rattle along. the reason is that i make it all up in my head for a year or two in advance and really work out all of the pieces. in your head rather than on a piece of paper? in my head. don't take notes. then i sit down and i actually start to write and it's miserable and it's hard but i get it all fixed as i go along, so i write a chapter and then work on that chapter for two months. then