"With novels, like cakes, you never know."
Robertson Davies.
You can read the interview from which that comes here, but let's take a couple more good lines from it:
"I often read, with amazement, of people who suffer from writer's block; I might enjoy a wee block, just to have time to catch my breath."
And on Trollope: "Trollope is endlessly gripping, though it's rather crunchy granola: you chomp your way resolutely through it because the story is so good."
Robertson Davies was a wonderful discovery for me last year when the Book Group read Fifth Business
