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I don't believe in kicking away ladders. By that, I mean the ladders by which I ascended as a young writer, small magazines that didn't pay anything, and that sort of thing.

I have a stepladder. It's a very nice stepladder but it's sad that I never knew my real ladder.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

Now I'm this far up the ladder and I've got so much farther to go with what I want to achieve with it.

I think each time you start a story or novel or whatever, you are absolutely at the bottom of the ladder all over again. It doesn't matter what you've done before.

I come from the bottom of the ladder. I'm from Norwich. Not many people seem to know about it.

I'm not trying to climb a ladder - I'm casting a bit of a net.