‘While I was shy and embarrassed to begin with, I soon became obsessed. I didn’t like the person I was turning into. Marketing brought out the pushy me.’
You might also like:
‘That novel you spend eighteen months redrafting in your mid-twenties? You can’t even remember what you did with the manuscript.’
‘I’ll do about thirty minutes of yoga, which puts me into a nice, calm frame of mind. But if I am doing heavy lifting, by which I mean drafting fiction, then no yoga. ‘
‘Different stories feel like they require different storytelling registers and so when I am working out whatever story I want to tell next, the medium tends to choose itself.’