‘No matter what I am doing, my current work in progress simmers away in snippets of conversation, memories bubbling up, observations on busy streets and queues in Tesco’s. These compost into my story.’
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‘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. ‘
‘Beyond the satisfaction of recording your life for posterity is the cathartic joy of pouring out your unhappiness. Nothing is so bad it cannot be written out of your system.’
‘The Scillies are the place my imagination retreats to when I’m grappling with a plot, or a new set of characters. I return there every year.’