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‘Recently I fell out of love with the written word; so glib, so manipulable and so manipulative. I started resenting the little plastic worlds it makes, its booming authority and its eternal set-in-stone endurance. ‘

‘One of you once told me you thought I’d been very brave to put so much of myself into the poetry. Consider that the opposite could be true; I have been successful in keeping the real me out.’

‘I write because I can make a world in my head come alive on the stage or screen. I get to see the people who rattled around in my imagination eventually move out into a home of their own.’