‘I think of myself as a brand; Sanjida Kay, the thriller writer, or Sanjida O’Connell, who writes literary fiction. And since I am a brand I only write or post about a version of myself, where everything relates to the writing.’
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‘For non-fiction, you can’t do anything chaotically, it doesn’t work. You have to be organised from the word go, or at least once you’ve had what I call ‘the initial hunch’.’
‘Perhaps what is significant for writers is not that we alone change and others do not, but simply, we have the rare privilege of noticing it.’