I never think of the reader. I am curious about things; I need to find out, so off I go.
From Jim Crace
Retiring from writing is to avoid the inevitable bitterness which a writing career is bound to deliver as its end product in almost every case.
Retiring from writing is not to retire from life.
You can't sing baritone when you're a soprano.
I have in the past acquired a reputation for concocting non-existent writers and unwritten volumes.
I'm not good at dialogue. I'm not good at holding a mirror up at a real world. I'm not good at believable characterisation.
When I was a youngster, I was brought up in a very political background on an estate in north London.
English politics is so much more concerned with the proprieties than with defending dogmas.
Writing careers are short. For every 100 writers, 99 never get published. Of those who do, only one in every hundred gets a career out of it, so I count myself as immensely privileged.
I liked journalism and thought it was important, certainly more important than fiction. I'd probably still be doing it if I hadn't been elbowed out.
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