CS: Though I find, I don’t know if you find this, increasingly I don’t want to read fiction any more.
SG: That will be a matter of age. I find the same thing.
CS: I don’t mind it in the theatre but I don’t want to read novels any more. I’d rather read history books and biographies.
SG: I also find it very difficult to read. I find I read the old novels again and again rather than a new novel which generally sort of terrifies me.
DJ: Simon, can we talk about one of your plays: Quartermaine’s Terms? Quartermaine is not an instantly likeable or typical sort of person. A kind of public schoolmaster who is all washed up and whose life isn’t really going anywhere and yet by the end of the play you identify very much with him, he matters to you. That’s an extraordinary trick to pull off.
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