About Ronald Frame: Ronald Frame is a prize-winning novelist, short story writer and dramatist. He was educated in Glasgow, and at Oxford University.
At the age of nine, I could cross the length of Glasgow on a succession of buses, wearing regulation garter-topped stockings and compulsory cap and - if I'd done well enough to earn the honour in last week's test - with a First World War medal on a s...
I’m not just a face, or a body. I’m a Havisham.
Why d’you think she did it?” I told him I had no idea. He seemed disappointed that I shouldn’t know. “A broken heart,” I suggested. “Do people suffer so much?” “For love? Oh, I imagine so.” “To drown herself?” “Why does that a...
Dancing takes a certain lightness, a spring in the step, an elasticity in the calves; a kind of , or alternatively a leavening element of self-proclaiming stupidity in one’s make-up.
Experience can never be undone, or knowledge unlearned.
That’s what friends are for,” Sheba said. “I don’t know they’re for,” I told her. “So that we don’t get out of our depth,” Mouse said.
Don’t we have to live a little first? And read later?
Some things belong to the past.
We were perfectly decorous together. It took the will of both of us. I trusted him with me, and myself with him.
I like French films, Chabrol in particular. With him, you often get a skewed morality in which you sympathise with the person you shouldn't.
I always felt journalists had a very clear idea of what they wanted to write about me before the interview began.
As a writer, you need a strong sense of self-belief. And when it comes to writing, I've always had that.
I'm very interested in how corruption works - and it's not necessarily the way one might expect.
I can remember in my early days of writing going to sort of writers' functions and parties and things like that, and I used to get very irritated because when people heard that you came from the suburbs, they had this notion that it was very un-cool ...
Titles either come to you at the beginning or they don't come to you at all, I find, and I hate the feeling that I haven't got a title because it usually means that you are left at the end scrambling around trying to find something.
As a little boy, I apparently had a predilection for undoing latch gates, running up pathways and ringing doorbells - and then running off again and away before the door was opened behind me.
For ten years, I went to piano lessons. I don't think I'm a very musical person, and the theory quite defeated me, but I had a freak aptitude for Debussy and Ravel.
Sundays in my teens were spent on homework: from 8 am until at least 8 pm, with stoppages to be fed and watered. I was carrying up to ten subjects simultaneously.
When I was younger, when I was at school, I did read a lot of fiction. I think as you get older perhaps you're interested in essays and biographies and things like that. I think it's just important to just read as much as you can.
'Ghost City' was actually one of the few instances of non-fiction that I had written, and I felt that I probably said what I wanted. I think it must be different for every author; I haven't done very much of it, and perhaps, in a way, I found it rath...
