He’s still, even after all these years, he says, an outsider. “I’m inhabiting a life I’m not supposed to be in… and at certain times in my life I have felt a wrongness. And not a moral wrongness but a sense that this isn’t what I was born to be doing.” The writers who he responds most to are those who seem to share a sense of “aloneness”, and “writing is almost a response to that aloneness which can’t be answered in any other way”.
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