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I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed reading and question the... →
I worry sometimes that I'm a bit moralistic; always writing about men who are learning to grow up, not be so self-absorbed, selfish or badly... →
A screenplay is really an instruction manual, and it can be interpreted in any number of ways. The casting, the choice of location, the costumes and... →
I think I became a writer because I used to write letters to my friends, and I used to love writing them. I loved the idea that you can put marks on... →
Fear and anxiety are great motivators for me.
I love Billy Wilder, and I love the way that his films can be very touching and very moving and very romantic, and at the same time there's... →
I still find it absurdly difficult to concentrate on a novel if there's a phone or computer to hand; I have taken to locking them outside the... →
I usually write on a computer - unless I get stuck, at which point I switch to write by hand. I think that's common among writers if they get... →
Most of the books and films I love walk a knife edge between romance and cynicism, and I wanted 'One Day' to stay on that line. I wanted it... →
My 20s was a sea of worry. I worried about benefit forms, about being thrown out of my flat. I never went on holiday because I thought: 'What if... →
Screenwriting is always about what people say or do, whereas good writing is about a thought process or an abstract image or an internal monologue... →
Well, it's so hard for books to take off. You give years of your life to something that probably won't happen, so when it does, it feels a... →
This might sound really foolish, but when I came to Edinburgh in 1988 I had spent nearly all my life living south of Bristol, and I was just amazed... →
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