'Like a lot of writers when I read something I enjoy, part of my mind is also deconstructing it. My subconscious brain continues to work.'

Like a lot of writers when I read something I enjoy, part of my mind is also deconstructing it. My subconscious brain continues to work even when I am supposedly relaxed and on holiday.

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'The writing usually begins with an intuition of structure and rhythm, rather than the words themselves.'

The writing usually begins with an intuition of structure and rhythm, rather than the words themselves. Even workaday pieces, like book reviews, have this primary rhythmic identity.

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'You have to trust that the words will come. You must ignore the devil on your shoulder that insists that they won't.'

The scariest manifestation of writer's block comes when writing the first draft. You have to trust that the words will come. You must ignore the devil on your shoulder that insists that they won't.

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'There will be a lot to cope with. If you knew how much you might jump off the windowsill, but you don't, and you won't. Instead you'll keep on writing.'

There will be a lot to cope with. If you knew how much you might jump off the windowsill, but you don't, and you won't. Instead you'll keep on writing stories.

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'That winter in France I looked at the world around me with wonder; much like snowboarding, writing is about freedom and control.'

That winter in France I looked at the world around me with wonder; much like snowboarding, writing is about freedom and control, and the happy union of these opposites.

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'Freelancers can't sit and wait; they have to create, or starve. But the mechanics of writing are difficult.'

Freelancers can't sit and wait; they have to create, or starve. But the mechanics of writing are difficult, building structures isn't always easy.

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'I have a fatal tendency to just open a fresh page and go; interesting things happen that way but you also get lots of false starts.'

Even now I have a fatal tendency to just open a fresh page and go. Interesting things happen that way but you also get lots of false starts.

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'Draft two is actually known to the world as draft one. It's the draft that my agent or my producer will read.'

Draft two is actually known to the world as Draft One. It's the draft that my agent or my producer will read. No one reads draft one; the rubbish one.

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'I don't know how these words arrive, or where they arrive from, but they are vividly themselves.'

I don't know how these words arrive, or where they arrive from, but they are vividly themselves; they seem to have little or nothing to do with me and my various tangled imperatives.

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'Writing biography, one of the great challenges is to remain disinterested; to resist any temptation to identify.'

Writing biography, one of the great challenges is to remain disinterested; to always resist any temptation to identify with your subject.

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