If I had the luxury of working as a full time writer, I think you would see novels appearing on a much more regular, and frequent, basis.

If I had the luxury of working as a full time writer, I think you would see novels appearing on a much more regular, and frequent, basis.

The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.

I always thought it better to allow myself to doubt before I decided, than to expose myself to the misery, after I had decided, of doubting whether I had decided rightly and justly.

When you commit a serious doping offence you are not eligible for lottery funding.

I got to see first hand what he has done to make this a reality. That has been real rewarding to watch him achieve his dream.

The true experimenters are there but no-one hears about them - the critical/review system tends to concentrate on the handful of 'major' writers and their promising successors; bookshops tend not to sell them; publishers don't promote them. It's the same fate as has befallen poetry.