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I like French films, Chabrol in particular. With him, you often get a skewed morality in which you sympathise with the person you shouldn't.

From Ronald Frame

I always felt journalists had a very clear idea of what they wanted to write about me before the interview began.

From Ronald Frame

As a writer, you need a strong sense of self-belief. And when it comes to writing, I've always had that.

From Ronald Frame

I'm very interested in how corruption works - and it's not necessarily the way one might expect.

From Ronald Frame

We become attached to certain characters in novels, mostly because they have some mystery attaching to them. We re-read the books, but we're still left wanting to know more. In my own case, it was 'Great Expectations' and Miss Havisham in particular. Luckily, writers have the option of making up the knowledge that reading doesn't supply.

From Ronald Frame

The gift of a writer as good as Dickens is not to explain everything; that way, the reader has, in terms of their imagination, somewhere to go.

From Ronald Frame

I think if you study people in the street today, you do sometimes feel that they have taken their behavior and their language from things that they have seen rather than read - from soap operas and movies and so on.

From Ronald Frame

'Ghost City' began as a idea. I felt that I hadn't read or heard a great deal about the sort of life that I thought I had, and I just thought that it would be interesting to sit down and see if I could put it down onto paper.

From Ronald Frame

I can remember in my early days of writing going to sort of writers' functions and parties and things like that, and I used to get very irritated because when people heard that you came from the suburbs, they had this notion that it was very un-cool to come from there.

From Ronald Frame

Titles either come to you at the beginning or they don't come to you at all, I find, and I hate the feeling that I haven't got a title because it usually means that you are left at the end scrambling around trying to find something.

From Ronald Frame

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