Is there something that you wish you had written in the book, but haven't?
Oh, yes! I could have written six volumes. Sixty-two years of a rich, varied life is a long time. What I wrote are things that were at the forefront of my memory then. If my publishers -- Penguin -- ask to, I can write a sequel.
How difficult was it to write the book, considering that it was to be an autobiography?
It was an easy and a difficult book to write. It was easy because I did not have to invent anything, like events or characters. It is just an honest, truthful story of my life. All I had to do was open the windows of my memory and the ideas just flowed in.
But it is also difficult because you have to be honest to not only yourself but to the events or people you are describing in the book. You have to bare yourself totally to the reader. You have to rip open yourself to the world... show your weaknesses and your strengths...
Sometimes, the truth is not very nice, but I have tried to be very fair and if my narrative offends somebody, then that is not intentional. My life has been an open book. I have written honestly.
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