I used to write my books at night when I was a freelancer with no children. I used to really work in huge spurts - I could turn around a revision in two weeks, I used to be able to write 10,000 words a day. It's like, 'Wow, what happened to that?' That's just gone.
“Eventually I lost the idea that I could have a career. I thought I was too old.”
“We see an extensive program of dismantling state institutions... These are ingredients for catastrophe.”