‘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.’
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‘That novel you spend eighteen months redrafting in your mid-twenties? You can’t even remember what you did with the manuscript.’
‘A chapter is written, then re-written overnight by my dreaming mind and recast in the morning. ‘
‘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. ‘