I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.

Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.

If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?

Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.

There is no way of writing stories that I haven't done.

I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.

As far as Im concerned, I didnt dream - ever.