As soon as I hear that there's something to get used to, I know that I won't; I sort of pledge myself to not getting used to it.

I guess, when I left university, I liked the idea of being a writer, and I thought then that being a writer really meant that you were a novelist. But if one of the impulses for being a novelist is wanting to be a storyteller, I never had any urge to tell stories.

You read 'Stalingrad' by Antony Beevor because you're interested in the Second World War or Russia or whatever.

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