I would love to learn how to air kiss non-awkwardly.

I've never really understood that whole thing of writers avoiding other writers' novels while they're working on their own.

There are probably a couple of things I'd never write about until everyone I know is dead. And then there's other stuff which nobody would want to read a book about anyway.

I hate going back over what I've written. It makes me feel physically sick.

I don't have a day job, so I read any time of day.

If I want to feel as if I'm being sucked down a fathomless gloomy tunnel for hours and hours then I have a complete set of Schopenhauer at home.

I started my first novel when I was 10, and have produced thousands of pages of juvenilia since.