‘I gather thoughts as I go; if I am right at the beginning of a novel I will have written down an idea that came to me on the train, or in the night, or whilst out on a run, and I might need it now.’
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‘When working as an invigilator of public exams, I would gaze around the hall of silent candidates, imagining scenes from my novel-in-progress.’
‘Letters, notebooks and diaries testify to an ability to write with tolerable coherence without prior planning. Everything else has me pacing…’
‘I have lots of ideas for stories and novels, with whole plots and casts of characters. But until I find the tune, I can’t even get started. ‘