‘One memorable piece of advice came from a dream in which I found myself in a forest at night, watching the Devil and an Angel compete over who could climb highest up the twin boughs of a huge tree…’
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‘I’d be focussed when I wrote. I’d stop being self conscious. I wrote to make myself present and at the same time, to disappear; and those are the reasons I write now.’
‘Remember to keep a notebook at all times. It’s your impressions I’m after; like the bicycle clips worn by one of your fellow passengers on the Hoi Wong to stop cockroaches climbing up his trouser legs.’