I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.
A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.
We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.
To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy.
There are about as many ways to be dead as there are to be alive. People linger in different ways, both publicly and privately.
The writing day can be, in some ways, too short, but it's actually a long series of hours, for months at a time, and there is a stillness there.