I Was Always Influenced By Language.

To Try To Expunge An Individual's History Is A Terrible Violation.

Reread, Rewrite, Reread, Rewrite. If It Still Doesn't Work, Throw It Away. It's A Nice Feeling, And You Don't Want To Be Cluttered With The Corpses Of Poems And Stories Which Have Everything In Them Except The Life They Need.

My First Collection Of Poems Was Published By Bloodaxe Books, Which Was Then A Very New Imprint.

A Novel, In The End, Is A Container, A Shape Which You Are Trying To Pour Your Story Into.

I Enjoy Research; In Fact Research Is So Engaging That It Would Be Easy To Go On For Years, And Never Write The Novel At All.