Each piece of writing I undertake, whether a story, novel, play, or poem, begins with an image.

Each piece of writing I undertake, whether a story, novel, play, or poem, begins with an image.

It may be old hat, but I see no reason to close off what is for me a fruitful subject of inquiry, especially so for one, like me, who is very much interested in creating stories and novels of ideas.

I very much like the idea of the unreliable narrator. Shaping my fictions as monologues - by introducing the "I" - allows me to be as unreliable as I like.

I had hoped to be a poet, and for a long time I tried to write poetry. My first published pieces were poems.

I admitted that I did not understand life. What I meant was that I am bewildered by human hearts and motivations, including my own.

My fondness for extended monologue might have been encouraged by two decades of writing stage and radio dramas.