Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death.
Copy Quote View & ShareI have always believed that the material world is governed by nonmaterial sources, so that in that sense 'English Music' is an exercise in the spiritual as well as the material. I have always been attracted to the Gothic and spiritual imagination, and I've always been interested in visionaries.
Copy Quote View & ShareLondon has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my books.
Copy Quote View & ShareIt may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a story, a narrative of adventure and of vision, of character and of incident. It is also a portrait of the great general drama of the human spirit.
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