Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the...
Life is a very orderly thing but in fiction there is a huge liberation and...
When I'm writing my neural pathways get blocked. I can't read. I can barely...
I'm a lapsed Quaker. I don't go to meetings any more. But I'm very drawn to...
My father was an autodidact. It wasn't a middle-class house. Shopkeepers are...
I think about death a lot I really do because I can't believe I won't...
The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death...
For the first-time novelist you've got to get up at 5:30 in the morning and write until 7 make breakfast and go to work. Or come home and work for an hour. Everybody has an hour in their day somewhere.
