I don't write backwards, I've never been able to do that!
I have been approached several times by the movie industry, who have sometimes taken out options on my work. So far nothing has come of any of this.
I have to write longhand, and no one can read my writing, I have to type my own manuscripts, because I'm going almost in a zigzag, across and then down.
I haven't deteriorated or gone insane. Suddenly, I just can't get anything into print. And apparently I'm not alone in this. There are people of very high standing, authors who are having problems. So I have been told.
I just love doing everything.
I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.
I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.
I like time to struggle with my characters and plotlines... but then, when you want to do something, you seize it.
I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons.
I love all types of music, but classical music particularly has had an enormous influence on my writing, and some pieces have directly inspired a book. Shostakovich's Symphony Number 5 was a direct influence.
I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.
I never know where I am going, though. That is part of what makes it so wonderful. And after all, who does?
I rather like turning all stories around.
I started a version of my French historical novel... I found it utterly fascinating.
I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.
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