Writers

 First published in Column 8 on the 10th April1991.

 

This being New Zealand Writers’ Week, I can’t let it pass bywithout a comment or two from this New Zealand writer. Though you realise thatpeople who write in newspapers aren’t really writers – especially since theyuse word processors.

I remember watching P D James, the crime writer,interviewing her opposite number, Ruth Rendell, on television. Ms James, in hermaiden aunt floral dress and blue rinse and sensible shoes was quite astonish...