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I wrote more to occupy my time and because writing was an activity suited to my hyperactive imagination and love…
Writing fiction belongs more to the sleeping, than the waking world, so I try not to surrender myself to the…
As the years went by ‘Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush’ evolved into my own private Arcadia, so much…
I write because I don’t do fashion, or fortune, or fakery. I write because I don’t serve or service, or…
Though I never told him so, I write because of my father; unusually for that time he was the parent…
Typing away with two fingers late at night with no idea of plan or structure, not noticing as characters came…
Perhaps the slowness and painfulness of my writing process is also part and parcel of what I do best when…
In a strange way writing is a communal activity, getting you out into the world to see it anew, to…
When you take that rag-bag bunch of lost children to the farm they wrecked, remember that you can see a…
When I resurfaced into the real world I realised with absolute certainty that what Tolkien had done for me, was…
Poor, uneducated Mr Polly makes a constant fool of himself by trying to use words he can’t always quite remember…
You can never delete or reword what has been spoken, but you can do both of these glorious acts when…
