When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process.
“Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so there was not the expectation of luxury.”
“Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.”