As For Goals, I Don't Set Myself

I Believe That, Like Most Writers, My Personality Comes Through In The Fiction. So In That Respect My Writing Can’t Be Like Any Other Author’s Really.

Writing Can Be A Very Solitary Business. It's You Sat At A Desk Typing Words Into A Computer. It Can Get Lonely Sometimes And Lots Of Writers Live Quite Isolated Lives.

The Most Terrifying Thing I Can Think Of Is Being Alone - And I Mean Utterly Alone, Like No One Else In The World Alone - At Night. That's The Nucleus Of The First Story In My Collection And It's Also Where The Title Came From For The Book.

As For Goals, I Don't Set Myself Those Anymore. I'm Not One Of These 'i Must Have Achieved This And That By Next Year' Kind Of Writers. I Take Things As They Come And Find That Patience And Persistence Tend To Win Out In The End.

It's Not Just That Toil Allows The Appearance Of Spontaneity. It Allows The Actuality Of Spontaneity.