I'm not trying to write cinematic novels, but I have been told several times that my style is cinematic.
Nicholas RoyleWhat the short story needs above all is for one of the big publishers to get an equivalent series up and running and to support it and promote it.
Nicholas RoyleThe short story feels like the most natural length for prose fiction, or certainly for the kind of ideas and situations I like to encounter.
Nicholas RoyleThe idea that a student can write a sonnet or a novel without having a sound understanding about its history, and where it fits into literature as a whole, seems to me to be manifestly daft.
Nicholas RoyleI was particularly drawn to Berlin because of its literal, concrete division. Two halves making a whole, or two entities that were altered doubles of each other? Twins that had been separated and kept in neighbouring houses and raised according to different sets of rules as a social experiment? It was irresistible as a metaphor for division in the mind, for a split personality.
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