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In the end, there's something of the puritan work ethic about me that roles really must sustain me on an intellectual level.
At the end of every stage performance, the audience all applaud me for doing my job, but I have friends who work in offices who don't get that.
I type most of my books for the first chapter or two - I use a manual typewriter for the first 50 pages or so - and then I move to the computer. It helps me keep the work lean so I don't end up spending 10 pages describing a leaf.
End of the sixties, Keith Blazey interested me to work on GdAlO3, an antiferromagnet on which he had done optic experiments. This started a fruitful cooperation on magnetic phase diagrams, which eventually brought me into the field of critical phenomena.