I was at the tail end of the family. The next brother along was already seven years older than me. I remember growing up by myself, playing games by myself.

All we are is eyes looking for the unbroken or the edges where the broken bits might fit each other.

I wouldn't call my work Modernist. I would rust if I try to think about labels. I'd feel like the Tin Man in 'The Wizard of Oz.

Google is so strange. It promises everything, but everything isn’t there. You type in the words for what you need, and what you need becomes superfluous in an instant, shadowed instantaneously by the things you really need, and none of them answerable by Google.

The proper word for me," Robin Goodman says, "is me.

Nothing is harmful to literature except censorship, and that almost never stops literature going where it wants to go either, because literature has a way of surpassing everything that blocks it and growing stronger for the exercise.

I was at the tail end of the family. The next brother along was already seven years older than me. I remember growing up by myself, playing games by myself.