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I represented Queen Mary University on University Challenge. It’s not every day you get to team up with the lead…
The writer needs mechanisms to maintain enthusiasm and minimise worry so that he can take full advantage of moments that…
I’ve used my nightie in workshops with serious-minded business people, in schools with cynical sixth-formers, in warehouses with fork-lift truck…
At 8.5 pence per loan, sometimes the annual sum from the public lending rights can be more than writers receive…
Nowadays I rarely venture into central London. I’m drawn instead to Hampstead Heath. It’s the nearest thing to the countryside.…
All the poet needed, it seemed, was a well-proportioned townhouse on a sunny piazza, a couple of thousand calf-bound books…
I’ve learned the hard way that the best thing to do is wait, until one idea out-shouts the others, and…
I’ll resort to tea, but anything stronger would make things much worse. The likes of John Berryman or Dylan Thomas…
I don’t know what it is, but there just seems to be a divide between my creative thinking and all…
I once sat on a panel with two British Asian male crime writers. There to discuss ‘diversity’, the three of…
Writers, especially women, manage to write in all sorts of places. At the corner of the kitchen table while they…
It took years, decades, for him — while he morphed into me — to grasp that his project was fiction…
