Here we meet, on the page, naked and unadorned: shorn of class, race, gender, sexual identity, age and nationality.

Live life and write about life. Of the making of many books there is indeed no end, but there are more than enough books about books.

The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.

I do have a fantasy life in which I can grout bathrooms - but not for a living.

As a species, we're addicted to the facile discrimination involved in saying that something or phenomenon is either 'this' or 'that' - how much more uncomfortable that it may well be 'the other'.

...catching a glimpse of his rather hippyish form in a mirror, he wonders at this atavism of apparel, is it an inversion of foetal ontogeny, in which the phenotype passes through previous fashion stages? Soon there will be gaiters and gloves...I will probably die, he thinks, clad in animal skins.

I always wanted to write fiction. Always. As far back as I can remember it's been integral to my sense of myself - everything else was always a displacement activity.