‘I don’t talk about a novel until I’m well into the first draft, and in fact have a private superstition that it will disappear if I do talk about it too soon.’
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‘As you sit at your desk in Bristol Poly tapping away at that Amstrad, break off for a moment to tell me how you do it. Where do your creativity, your self-belief, come from? ‘
‘By the time I was working on my fourth novel, The Thousand Lights Hotel, I was thirty-six and my son was one. Writing was my happy place.’
‘A chapter is written, then re-written overnight by my dreaming mind and recast in the morning. ‘