'This is often the case with writing; extended longueurs when you simply have to trust that, beneath the implacable, icy mass, idea pebbles are being ...

'Patrick Hardy, interested in my project, asked me to demonstrate a few of the tricks. Mummified Finger? Flapping Thing? I wondered nervously.'Patrick...

'A classic crime story starts with a dead body and then we work backwards, often with a central detective character, to find out how this came about. ...

'Many of us have Kindles and yet we still buy books, because sometimes we just want something to hold. Or because it's easier to study from a book. 'M...

'The student distrusts their own abilities to evoke a fictional world and so they add in more and more detail. But they also distrust their reader.'Th...

'What a published text really gives you, is the smoldering possibility of more. A genuine afterlife for the play. 'What a published text really gives ...

'At night, I meditate on the problem. I ask myself, what is the problem? Am I stuck because I have run out of ideas?'At night, I meditate on the probl...

'You'll have three wonderful children, and you'll have the pleasure of rereading the books you reread, with them.'You'll have three wonderful children...

'If something really gets to me, I want to figure out how and why. What is it the writer does that takes me to a particular place, or time? How do the...

'Good nature poetry is about looking, but it's also about having the right vocabulary, which most of us townies are losing. 'Good nature poetry is abo...