You want to live your own life, but when you have fame, there are certain things you can't get away with.
				I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.			
				
			When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not look as though he were destined to remain long on board ship!			 
			

 
