People generally complain that they're overburdened by responsibilities, forgetting that they chose to have those responsibilities. No one makes... →
Mark Barrowcliffe
Our grandparents' generation never expected too much out of life and, paradoxically, were happier for it. It never occurred to my granddad that... →
My humour and my work ethic definitely come from my Scottish side, and I have to say the sense of humour doesn't really translate when I'm in... →
John Barrowman
The one thing that makes 'Torchwood' work so brilliantly and makes it a little bit above the rest of all other sci-fi dramas out there is... →
I never wanted to work for anybody else; I always wanted to be my own boss.
John Barry
I greatly enjoyed working as a freelance journalist, because it gets you out of the house, and it gets you talking to people, but it wasn't... →
Kevin Barry
At one point I would read nothing that was not by the great American Jews - Saul Bellow, Philip Roth - which had a disastrous effect of making me... →
I have always felt a special affinity with V. S. Pritchett. He worked from the ear, primarily, as I do, and he was an all-rounder, writing short... →
I was writing fiction in my 20s but in a pretty undisciplined way - late at night, maybe, after I'd peeled myself from the walls of a nightclub... →
I've had lots of people saying very nice things about the work. But I genuinely feel in the course of a writing career you're going to have... →