‘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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‘In my dreams, my home is a clinically efficient office space, where I clock in to my desk at nine, and out again at five, with an hour for lunch.’
‘That novel you spend eighteen months redrafting in your mid-twenties? You can’t even remember what you did with the manuscript.’
‘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.’