Was your childhood ambition always to be a writer?
If not, what inspired you to start writing? |
I am not sure about childhood, but certainly in my early teens when I went through first a Mickey Spillane phase and then a Raymond Chandler/ Ross MacDonald period. Then there was a John Gardner/Len Deighton phase. I wrote a short story when I was fourteen in a nightmare collage of the above. It was confiscated by the RE teacher as ‘violent filth’, which I was quite proud of at the time.
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How long have you been writing? |
I wrote when I was 14-16 then stopped again until my early thirties, when I began writing journalism.
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What do you enjoy most about writing? |
The process of telling stories.
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Which writers do you admire? |
This weeks selection (it changes, of course) include Len Deighton, Ian McEwan, Graham Greene, Paul Auster, early Gavin Lyall, Michael Dibdin, Jonathan Raban, mid-period James Lee Burke, Richard Price, Richard Ford, George V Higgins, Anthony Lane.
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