A baby was like a revolution, Grigori thought: you could start one, but you could not control how it would turn out.
Most of my stories have some basis in fact.
Fear could paralyse. Action was the antidote.
I aim to be translucent, so you don't notice the words, just their meaning. I haven't much insight into people's motivations.
Culture clash is terrific drama.
I wanted to be some kind of captain of industry. Then I wanted to be in advertising, and then I wanted to be a newspaper reporter.