Language leads a double life - and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you attend to your correspondence, you consult menus and shopping lists, you observe road signs, and so on. Then you enter your study, where language exists in quite another form - as the stuff of patterned ar
“If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?”
“I always work from an outline, so I know all the of the broad events and some of the finer details before I begin writing the book.”