Going on writing until ninety or one hundred / Cynical about the great words / Dealing with the hinterland of the consciousness / Dressing for dinner in the jungle / Doing what the hell you like in the novel / Working on apocalypse / Guilt's a good thing / Sense of an audience / Getting your day's work done before breakfast / Reinventing the language / We must be free / Guilty as hell : Jeremy Isaacs talks to Anthony Burgess