Tom Bullough – Why I Write
I think of writing now, not in terms of addiction — although this can be tempting sometimes — but rather…
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I think of writing now, not in terms of addiction — although this can be tempting sometimes — but rather…
My first year at Latitude it was baking with sunshine and I ended up having a drink under a tree…
I do think critics are absurd about crime and sci-fi. They tend to get discombobulated by it, and over-praise genre…
It could be argued that this human drive for narrative has constituents similar to appetite and, say, sleep. It could…
I like to keep a meticulous, joylessly Presbyterian record of my daily toil, and I’ve had to accept that, for…
I may have a science degree but I’m not a scientist. Equally, I know far too much science to be…
I had to pinch myself to believe I was really speaking to audiences in the Emirates, where the new Vice…
Quite often I’ve dropped the project altogether and gone onto something else, in a different medium. Turning my back on…
I’d love to rewrite Barnaby Rudge. Principally, to do justice to the most interesting and unusual character in the book…
My father was a mining engineer, and although our house looked out onto fields, not colliery wheels, I’ve enjoyed writing…
Although you can imagine the Saffron Hill rookery that Oliver Twist was spirited away to by the Artful Dodger, the…
When I switched from adult fiction to YA, I was suddenly and acutely more aware of my readers than I…