I was the first and only person in my family to go to university, and I spent two decades redesigning myself: even my voice is the product of elocution lessons.
From M. J. Hyland
From the age of eighteen to twenty-one, I worked any job I could get my hands on. One of these jobs was selling fake paintings door-to-door.
Life is ruthless, and its bestowal of fortune arbitrary and capricious. I'd been born to morons, and mine was a shabby life.
Where writers are from is one of the world' s most boring topics. Where we're born, gender or race, wealth or poverty - those are the things we spend time talking about. Stop trying to label me. I'm a writer. Worry about whether I'm any good!
I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.
I get into all sorts of trouble with my publicists and with newspapers because I won't do photographs.
I have been obscenely lucky. I've got most of the things I've asked for and done well at the things I've wanted to succeed at.
I've never experienced writer's block. When it's going really well, my body temperature goes up, and I'm flushed. I get quite delirious.
Law gave me some structure... all these rules and internal disciplines.
I might live in Manhattan or Edinburgh or Cardiff. I think of myself as without nationality.
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