At 88, he acknowledged that plans for books he had carried around in his head for decades might not now get written, so he had written the stories in one-page versions. The exercise went some way to proving a long-held suspicion that hardly any nonfiction book isn’t improved by being on a side of A4.

Tim Adams in The Observer. I read this 2 weeks ago, promptly forgot where, and found it again by chance this morning.