thank you

I've never really expected

to find myself giving advice to people graduating

from an establishment of higher education.

I've never graduated from any such establishment.

I've not even started at one. I escaped from school as soon as I

could, when the prospect of four more years of enforced

learning before I'd become the writer I wanted to be

seems stifling. I got out into the world,

I wrote till I became a better writer the more I wrote,

and I wrote some more, and nobody ever seemed to mind that I was making

it all up as I went along, they just read what I wrote and they me paid for it,

or they didn't, and often they