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

When I'm writing new material, I never have any trouble coming up with ideas.

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

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

Mystery, investigation, false leads, solution - we associate that structure with genre fiction, but it exists in our real lives, too. There's no reason why literary fiction shouldn't be able to acknowledge that and make it fresh.

Until I was 16, I read nothing but science fiction. I loved William Gibson and I still do. But my favourite book when I was growing up, for a long time, was 'Snow Crash' by Neal Stephenson, which I must have read about a dozen times when I was a teenager.