However, my problems with my memory are further complicated by the fact that while I don't have any recollection of things I have actually done, I have very vivid recollections of loads of things that I haven't done.

If someone starts agreeing with me, I don't like it. Out of pique, I become something else.

People aren't universally heroic.

I liked 35 and in both my novels that is the age of the lead characters. I tried making them my age but they just seemed to keep moaning about stuff.

There's a part of me that still hates everything, and my natural view default setting is still very cynical and dark

I wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift.

For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.