‘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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‘My first novel was rejected by over twenty imprints before finding a home. That novel won prizes in the end, but I still remember those adjectives used by agents.’
‘My agent thought the first hundred pages were the best thing I’d ever written, and wanted the rest as soon as possible… ‘