I always love writing about children.
From Joanna Trollope
You can't help parts of yourself leaking into other characters.
I'm an enormous fan of people who have had a lot of faith in themselves, and been on a tremendous journey.
I plot the first 5 or 6 chapters quite minutely, and also the end. So I know where I am going but not how I'm going to get there, which gives characters the chance to develop organically, as happens in real life as you get to know a person.
All TV can do is capture the spirit of a book because the medium is so utterly different. But I'm very grateful for the readers that Masterpiece Theatre has undoubtedly brought me.
You can't be too old to be a writer, but you can definitely be too young!
I am often criticised for being rather accessible.
My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.
I'm actually rather orderly, although the way that I write is not.
Out of respect to writers, you have to read the book in the way in which the author visualised it going out into the world.
3 perspectives
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