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Since those youthful years of being exposed to many types of books, I am now drawn mostly to nonfiction, appreciating someone’s life story or pivotal eras in history.

Are they going through your back catalogue? michael laughs i don't think so. there have been re—editions of things where we have changed odd bits and pieces. i think i had one, you will like this, i had a poem aboutjumping up and down on drain covers, and the word i used for that when i was a kid was bonking. bonking on the drains. so we agreed that probably we would take that one out. so the poem, a lovely poem, i really like it, "we are bonking, we are bonking, we are bonking on the drains." it is not in the latest edition of that book. what is the new word? no, the whole poem came out. mi...

In the playground against people, you mightjust hesitate to put it, so a lot of self—censorship goes on when we write books. you know, again, if you say somebody is ugly, which is one of the words they took out, well, what does that mean? we know beauty is in the eye of the beholder. there is no objective thing called ugliness and these days we do tend to believe that no matter what people look like, they can be beautiful on the inside, all these things. and so you think about these things when you write. and we make mistakes. there are books of mine you can find from the past and somebody c...