A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although. . . he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child.

I enjoy journalism; anybody does. You see the results immediately; you've got an immediate audience instead of having to wait for your audience as you do if you're writing a book, and you get a bit of money coming in, and you can see more clearly how you're paying the bills. But it's not a good position for the serious novelist to be in.

He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Sharing is the first stage to the evolution of the intellectual.