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At the age of nine, I could cross the length of Glasgow on a succession of buses, wearing regulation garter-topped stockings and compulsory cap and -... →
Sundays in my teens were spent on homework: from 8 am until at least 8 pm, with stoppages to be fed and watered. I was carrying up to ten subjects... →
I've actually got quite a good memory. I've good recall. It's often things which other people might not notice.
I'm very interested in how corruption works - and it's not necessarily the way one might expect.
A writer's life suits me. It's fairly, well, other people might think it was actually rather dull, but that's fine because I feel that my... →
For ten years, I went to piano lessons. I don't think I'm a very musical person, and the theory quite defeated me, but I had a freak aptitude... →
I think, when you are writing non-fiction, you feel there's an obligation to get it absolutely right, so all your factual details have to be... →
The funny thing about writing is, although you are writing about an experience which only you have had, you are trying to welcome other people into... →
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... →
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... →
As a writer, you need a strong sense of self-belief. And when it comes to writing, I've always had that.
I always felt journalists had a very clear idea of what they wanted to write about me before the interview began.
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.