I get my flow from Daddy, my singing ability from Mommy, the camera stuff from both. That's just what happens when you hang out with the Smiths.
I like to eat cheese out of a bowl everyday.
Sometimes the crowd is the madness - at others it's the absence of the crowd that is.
What more chilling indictment of the modern world is there than this: that the condition of the smartphone user is that of a dumb animal. Moooo!
For myself, I haven't been content to carry on producing books that merely strain against the conventions - as I've grown older, and realised that there aren't that many books left for me to write, so I've become determined that they should be the fi...
A party full of 'likeable' people doesn't bear contemplating.
Who'd want to be a modernist writer in the English-speaking world?
Without a shadow of doubt, Trafalgar Square has to be one of the most crap urban public spaces in the world.
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.
So heedless have we become of our own image that second-hand mobile phones now invariably come with a SIM card chock-full of discarded intimacies.
As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject's unabashed difficulty.
It might be an idea for all literary critics to read the books they analyse aloud - it certainly helps to fix them in the mind, while providing a readymade seminar with your audience.
A short story is a shard, a sliver, a vignette. It's a biopsy on the human condition but it doesn't have this capacity to think autonomously for itself.
As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid.
You can always spot a 'television personality', even when they aren't actually on television, because they carry their 'made-up' persona in front of them, like some sort of baffler, or Ready Brek force field. Their reach for notoriety predicated on t...
I prefer to write first drafts as soon as possible after waking, so that the oneiric inscape is still present to me.
Like all right-listening folk, I am an implacable enemy of all muzak.
I write because I feel driven to write. I write from a sense of inner necessity. I don't write for anything other than that.
Lives don't divide up into chapters. People don't just talk, while nothing's going on in their head, and then respond. You know, none of these things actually happen.
You go through these little phases and fads, and it never turns out the way you think it's going to turn out.
I don't really go for the swagger thing too much.
