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My imagination had been fired by my grandmother’s secret cache of Barbara Cartlands, that she kept in a cupboard beside…
Instead of trying to write I try not to write and let the urge to write build in me to…
The blank page can be unnerving to a novelist preparing for the day’s long trek, but it’s a wasteland that…
What a fantastic life it would be, I thought, sitting by a sunny window writing stories, only stopping for lunch…
I verbalise their words aloud. I copy their physical mannerisms, and re-enact crucial scenes in the ‘You talking to me?’…
There’s much to be embarrassed about in-between the covers of my six novels, but thank god bad sex ain’t one…
I will edit and re-edit for a few hours and only then move on to the blank screen, the next…
For every J.K. Rowling there are thousands of writers for whom the minimum wage would be serious improvement on reality.
The next person who gave me permission to write was my best friend. We would swap sword and sorcery books…
Beroul’s Tristan introduced me to a world which was concrete, physically very present and peopled with personalities who were many…
There’s no one around to practice Eurovision dance routines with, or to play Monopoly. You watched ‘Moonraker’ on VHS yesterday.
Writing is the place you put your life, the overflowing-ness of it, and at other times it’s the well from…
