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.

I don't see myself as experimenting in any conscious way, it's perhaps that certain books require different densities of language.

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

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

I have a backlog of novels which I would love to be working on and would be working on if I were not obliged to hold down a full time job.

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.

We've invested millions of dollars in tourism. Now they're trying to industrialize and pollute the ocean. It doesn't make any sense to me at all.