The writer is all alone.

If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.

What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.

The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.

I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.