In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

I wrote what interested me; and my method of working out my story through the dream process probably underlay the wheels within wheels aspect.

I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.

I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.

I did not go along with the new theories that Hubbard was offering. They had a religious aspect and I paid no attention to them.

Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.