But we were interested in how our lives could mean something to the past. We sailed into the past.

all this Beethoven and rain

Love is the use one makes of another.

But we were interested in how our lives could mean something to the past. We sailed into the past.

One of the things that happens in novels it's almost like a continual debate with yourself. That's why you're writing the book. It's why you create characters: so you can argue with yourself.

Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting.

Once I've discovered the story, I might restructure it, maybe move things around, set up a clue that something is going to happen later, but that happens much later in an editorial capacity.