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I ask particularly because I know you once said you didn't think it was a particularly good book and I'm wondering if you've changed your mind … AG: I don't reread, unless I have to (eg for adapting The Owl Service and Red Shift for television).
Lacking all but basic education, I am not rereading the classics, like most, but coming to most of them for the first time.
"When I am finished, I don't reread it.
I read Goldman's 1964 novel, Boys and Girls Together, when I was 16, long before I knew he wrote movies, and the memory of how much I loved it as a teenager means it necessarily remains one of my favourite books today, even though I daren't reread it, so I'm predisposed to find Goldman fascinating enough all by himself, without additional talking heads Dickie Attenborough and Robert McKee.
Although I didn't reread Jane Eyre as a teen, I did finally read it again as an adult, many times in fact, and I love it.
I hadn't reread the tales in years, and perhaps I had never really read them, having merely absorbed them from the air around me, where they abide like a haunting cultural mist.
A few years after Violet's birth, the ambitious Alice moved far beyond Ernest and became "La Favorita," mistress to the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII. (Got it? If not, reread, and make a chart. I did).
I haven't reread them since.
