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I dashed something off about my then obsession: Aristocrats. My favourite film at that time was The AristoCats; I don’t…
Like a lot of writers when I read something I enjoy, part of my mind is also deconstructing it. My…
The writing usually begins with an intuition of structure and rhythm, rather than the words themselves. The writing usually begins…
You have to trust that the words will come. You must ignore the devil on your shoulder that insists that…
There will be a lot to cope with. If you knew how much you might jump off the windowsill, but…
That winter in France I looked at the world around me with wonder; much like snowboarding, writing is about freedom…
Freelancers can’t sit and wait; they have to create, or starve. But the mechanics of writing are difficult. Freelancers can’t…
I have a fatal tendency to just open a fresh page and go; interesting things happen that way but you…
Draft two is actually known to the world as draft one. It’s the draft that my agent or my producer…
I don’t know how these words arrive, or where they arrive from, but they are vividly themselves. I don’t know…
Writing biography, one of the great challenges is to remain disinterested; to resist any temptation to identify. Writing biography, one…
I’m a proud black man, but let me make it clear; I don’t profess to speak for all black people.…
