It turns up the heat under a narrative when you limit the characters in their movements or their freedoms.

I've been writing full-time since I was 23.

People move around so much in the world, things get lost.

It turns up the heat under a narrative when you limit the characters in their movements or their freedoms.

I tend to be so lost in the work that I don't notice the weather. My partner will come home and say, 'Beautiful day, wasn't it?' and I'll say, 'Was it?' as I won't have noticed the real world at all.

If you have written something that the film people want, like a book, it does give you a way in.

You cannot predict literary success; the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it well.