I Have Danced With The Spider. I

A Sense Of Wrongness, Of Fraught Unease, As If Long Nails Scraped The Surface Of The Moon, Raising The Hackles Of The Soul.

London Is An Endless Skirmish Between Angles And Emptiness.

I Couldn't Tell If I Was Perspicacious Or Paranoid.

When I'm Writing A Book, Generally I Start With The Mood And Setting, Along With A Couple Of Specific Images—things That Have Come Into My Head, Totally Abstracted From Any Narrative, That I've Fixated On. After That, I Construct A World, Or An Area, Into Which That General Setting, That Atmosphere, And The Specific Images I've Focused On Can Fit.

The Best Way To Write A Novel Is To Do It Behind Your Own Back.