Occupation: Novelist Birth: November 8, 1954
Your life must now run the course that's been set for it..
I half closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I'd ever lost since my childhood had washed up, and I was now standing here in ….
Its was one of those events which at a crucial stage in one's development arrive to challenge and stretch one to the limit of one's ability and beyon….
What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer's life with the writing. I think that's something a lot of writers are havi….
She always wanted to believe in things..
It was like being given a maths problem when your brain's exhausted, and you know there's some far-off solution, but you can't work up the energy eve….
I like novelists who can create other interesting worlds..
I think the judging process is full of integrity, compared to some other prizes around the world. The fact that they change the panel of judges every….
I started as a songwriter and wanted to be like Leonard Cohen. I've always seen my stories as enlarged songs..
It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic bec….
I was very young when I prepared those prints. I suspect the reason I couldn't celebrate the floating world was that I couldn't bring myself to belie….
It was like there was some parallel universe we all vanished off to where we had all this sex..
I work very regular hours, roughly 9 to 5:30. I think I have it much easier than a lot of parents. I just sit at home, I have a very flexible timetab….
After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?.
And I'm a Hailsham student - which is enough by itself sometimes to get people's backs up..
You say you’re sure? Sure that you’re in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple?.
Even the solitude, I've actually grown to quite like... I do like the feeling of getting into my little car, knowing for the next couple of hours I'l….
I wouldn't want to try to adapt something of my own. It would be like going back to school and doing all my exams again..
Throughout my career I've struggled to encourage people to read my books on a more metaphorical level. I'm less attached to my settings than, for exa….
There's a practical problem about time and energy, and a more subtle problem of what it does to a writer's head, to continually analyze why they writ….
Perhaps one day, all these conflicts will end, and it won't be because of great statesmen or churches or organisations like this one. It'll be becaus….