John Montague, Independent.ie:
“The urge to comprehend is so deep. … It would make little sense to live a life if you didn’t understand what you had done. Then you try to make a shape out of it, in a poem or a story. Also, it’s a kind of judgement, you sit on yourself — the things that I’ve done that I can’t stand over and can stand over — accepting it all. You’re trying to emulate the divine vision.”
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Beryl Bainbridge, Guardian:
“I went to a psychiatrist in my thirties. I didn’t realise that you did all the talking and they just sat there, so I got embarrassed and just kept talking and making things up. After about six visits he looked very solemn and said, ‘I’m terribly sorry, but I’m emigrating to Canada.’ And I said, ‘Oh, lovely!'”