"Walk into a bookshop and you will see work by writers who produce a book every three months, writers who don’t own TV, writers with five children, writers who produce a book every twenty -five years, writers who never write sober, writers who have at least one eye on the film rights, writers who never think about money, writers who, in your opinion, can’t write at all. It doesn’t matter: they got the work done, and there they are up on the shelves. They might not stay there forever: readers, now and way off into the future, make that decision."