I Don't Want To Get Hung Up

The Thing About Getting Older Is That You Don't Need Everything To Be Possible Any More, You Just Need Things To Be Certain.

I Get Really Excited If I Think I'm Going To Introduce Somebody To A Writer They Haven't Found Before And I Think They'll Love. My Favorite Books To Get As Gifts Are Any That The Giver Is Messianic About.

I Guess There's A Sort Of Cycle With Writing Books. There's All The Researching And Then The Imagining And Writing - Which Is The Real Job - And Then There's Always A Period When The Book Comes Out And You Have To Lift Your Head And Venture Out.

Writing Is A Deeply Immersive Experience. When The Words Are Flying, The House Could Be Burgled And I Wouldn’t Notice. I Have A Low Boredom Threshold And I Like Intensity – Writing Is A Way Of Escaping The Quotidian.

People Always Want To Identify A Writer With Their Protagonist.