People are fools, not monsters

Different tenses and perspectives offer you different things. It helps to distinguish the world that they are in.

Who wants to be reputable? That's for golfers and tycoons with a sleazy past.

It's dark already and I'm out here again, talking, telling the story to the quiet night.

I never start with what lots of people think of as a subject or a theme. They're school words, not art words. So, writing essays busts my arse because the art is in addressing the subject. I find it really difficult and monstrously time-consuming. In an essay I need to employ my imagination but it's indentured in a way it's not when I'm free to make everything up.

It's impossible to imagine what Australia would be like without surfing.

I guess it must be a time-of-life thing, looking back and trying to make some sense of who I am and where I've been. It's a weird thing, having to give an account of yourself, to try to make sense of yourself for yourself. I'm not that old, but I have been writing fiction professionally for a long time now. I started so young and went so hard for so long. And I guess it was about feeling I had the space to look over my shoulder.