Novels have gone, novels are over. We don't want novels any more in this country. It's all been written. Nothing left to say. There's not a 'smart' set to emulate now, or to write about. If there's anything to say it's better done these days in newspapers or magazines.


Quoted in the Observer, 21 November 1999


Novels have gone, novels are over. We don't want novels any more in this country. It's all been written. Nothing left to say. There's not a 'smart'...

Novels have gone, novels are over. We don't want novels any more in this country. It's all been written. Nothing left to say. There's not a 'smart'...

Novels have gone, novels are over. We don't want novels any more in this country. It's all been written. Nothing left to say. There's not a 'smart'...

Novels have gone, novels are over. We don't want novels any more in this country. It's all been written. Nothing left to say. There's not a 'smart'...