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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.
As a little boy, I apparently had a predilection for undoing latch gates, running up pathways and ringing doorbells - and then running off again and... →
'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... →
'Ghost City' was actually one of the few instances of non-fiction that I had written, and I felt that I probably said what I wanted. I think... →
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... →
I can remember somebody once saying to me that they thought my life must be less real than these other people that they were writing about, which I... →
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... →
I'm here to get the story on to the page. It would be good to catch your attention, and I have to make you want to read on, and I suppose I... →
Let's say I find a lot of current American fiction too overwritten for my tastes, too self-conscious; I like something that's simpler and... →
Originally I wanted somewhere to set my short stories about the sort of people I recognise having grown up with. Carnbeg was staring me in the face... →
Some people say that you should read people who think completely differently from you so that everything you read and everything that they say is a... →
What appears on the page comes out of your experience, and no-one is going to see it in quite the same way - so, that being so, you're already... →
When I was younger, when I was at school, I did read a lot of fiction. I think as you get older perhaps you're interested in essays and... →
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