I'm actually rather orderly, although the way that I write is not.

You can change yourself and you can change the situation but you absolutely cannot change other people. Only they can do that.

I'm no lyrical stylist, you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual.

You can't help parts of yourself leaking into other characters.

Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence and his enormous psychological perception.

I've experienced huge kindness here, a great welcome and some very generous reviews without the snide social edge I often suffer from at home. I'm not patronized here either, which I much appreciate!

Out of respect to writers, you have to read the book in the way in which the author visualised it going out into the world.