Occupation: Writer Birth: March 17, 1933
There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history..
I'm now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I'm eternally grateful for..
I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation..
It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency..
The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss..
The place didn't look the same but it felt the same; sensations clutched and transformed me. I stood outside some concrete and plate-glass tower-bloc….
The past is our ultimate privacy; we pile it up, year by year, decade by decade, it stows itself away, with its perverse random recall system..
And in another year everything will be different yet again. It is always like that, and always will be; you are forever standing on the brink, in a p….
The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction..
I'm intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a person's life; things happen differently for a beautiful woman than for a pl….
It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless nerd..
We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from..
We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance..
Unless I am a part of everything I am nothing..
You have this comet trail of your own lived life, sparks from which arrive in the head all the time, whether you want them or not - life has been liv….
I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe some strange mixture of fiction a….
Forever, reading has been central, the necessary fix, the support system. Her life has been informed by reading. She has read not just for distractio….
Wars are fought by children. Conceived by their mad demonic elders, and fought by boys..
The day is refracted, and the next and the one after that, all of them broken up into a hundred juggled segments, each brilliant and self-contained s….
Born in Jerusalem, Wadie Said went from being a dragoman to a salesman in the United States and thence to a hugely successful businessman in Egypt..
I am addicted to arrivals, to those innocent dawn moments from which history accelerates..