Somewhere or other Martin Amis remarks that the reason we have very little idea of what it feels like to go into space is that no astronaut so far can write. If we know very well what it felt like to go through a tropical typhoon, that’s because there was a Joseph Conrad able to tell us about it.
Philip Hensher
De Profundis: the agony of filming Oscar Wilde’s last years
Rupert Everett’s miserable experience making The Happy Prince almost rivals Wilde’s own at the end of his life
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