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Get cracking on the mechanics, with discovering what writing can do. Life itself will take care of your subject. I…
Not that we writers have all the answers, but I believe we have a responsibility to ask some of the…
I’m British West Indian, and so much of what I was writing about had rarely been published or produced at…
You’d be affronted if you knew that a fifty-two year old woman was reading what you’d written, and you’d be…
I will live at your place in a vacuum of expectation. The one important thing your place should not contain,…
I viewed myself as split in two, and yet this duality became my career, as I started translating German plays…
One of the most startlingly inept sequences in thrillerdom’s history — Richard Hannay is on the run in Scotland and…
Niall Griffiths’ advice was to turn it all around. He burst open the hole I’d dug for myself; suddenly, magically,…
The first thirty percent of the story usually takes up about seventy percent of the time I will spend on…
My growing collection of shanties became a sort of palimpsest, through which I discovered a world of courage and daring.…
A soundtrack switches on and off, relentlessly searching for words to describe my sensations, storing up ideas. A soundtrack switches…
It’s the unrealistic expectation — if not outright fantasy — that we can write a dazzling first draft which keeps…
