Occupation: Writer Birth: October 27, 1950
I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them..
Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for ….
In general, Hitler embodied the view of any popular newspaper..
The latest research has revealed that women have a higher IQ than men..
IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated..
Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good..
In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather ch….
I'm boring. My beliefs are neither here nor there..
The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists..
One symptom of his (Hitler) being strangely at variance with reality, or the nature of things,was his gift for wearing inappropriate of ludicrous clo….
My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria..
It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well….
History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines..
I don't write books inadvertently..
I wanted passionately to be a priest..
I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death..
It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music -….
I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help..
The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind..
I had lost faith in biography..