"I'm always fascinated by etymology."

"I know writing is what I do but I still don't see myself as one."

"It is a costly thing living here to fight the erosion. The sea is constantly threatening to cut into the coastline an…"

"[Kafka] taught me a lot about the normal and the abnormal, and the distance between them. [...] He's out there by him…"

"The Bible has entered much of my work as have Latin and Greek mythology and verse."

"I often find poems hand written in old abandoned notebooks."

"There isn't any distinction between a reader and a writer – reading is so much a part of it."

"Without the reader there would be no writer."

"I'm no good at dinner parties. I feel very uneasy at them."

"I like the idea of stopping mid-sentence, like Graham Greene."