I'm less genial than people think, but I'm too timid to seem nasty.

I'm a lot less serious than people think.

He is making the nasty seem nice.

We haven't gotten nasty at all,

It wasn't nasty. There were no negative ads, no personal attacks,

I can't complain that I've had a public all through my writing life, but people don't quite know what I've written. People don't read you too closely. Perhaps, after I've died, they'll look at my stuff, and read it through, and find there's more in it. That may be wrong, but that's what I comfort myself with.