I don't reckon there are many writers who start out really expecting writing to be an attainable occupation. Well, I didn't. It was a pipe dream.
From Sarah Hall
I have ideas. I hear voices. Words accumulate. It's still an overriding impulse. And I'm self-employed, which means I have to be sensible and motivated about paying the bills.
Writing, and its theatre of operation, is better than working shifts packing frozen sausages; that's all I need to think about if I'm having difficulties.
The short story is very good at looking at shadow psychologies and how the system breaks down underneath.
I am a feminist, although I always worry saying that because you then get people asking you about the 1970s.
You are often asked to explain your work, as if the reader isn't able to work it out. And people always try and label you by your work.
I was useless at science. I was never going to be an astrophysicist.
Language description and metaphors seem readily available. The things I have to work harder at are plot, pacing, and form.
I don't like novels that tie everything up in a plot-y way. I always think that's not really true of life, particularly of people in power.
I married an American. He was from the Pacific Northwest but went to law school in the South, so I was living in Virginia and North Carolina.
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