I'm quite a curious person. I don't mind being the one who doesn't know things, a role I often play in QI.
An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.
I have no objection to well-written romance, but I'd read enough of it to know that that's not what I had written. I also knew that if it was sold as romance I'd never be reviewed by the 'New York Times' or any other literarily respectable newspaper - which is basically true, although the 'Washingto