"She let herself out by the back door and carefully shut it behind her, and ran through the short cut that led to the …"

"I am not a scrupulous plotter of fiction or poetry – I write intuitively, thinking for a long time about my subject a…"

"(Q: advice for struggling writers?) OS: Keep at it. Writing is a craft like any other and you get better with practic…"

"I was always going to be an artist or a writer, because I was talented in those areas, but also, I now think, because…"

"Somebody, I forget who it was, said that I was like a literary archeologist, which pleased me because that is how I l…"

"OS: There is a certain imperative about what I write and how I write, and I'm going to follow that imperative regardl…"

"I suppose the main thing about me is that I don't feel or see any disjunction between life and land or between living…"

"I also think that one of the things that has shaped my sensibilities as a writer is the intense beauty of the country…"

"I haven't done research for any specific poem, but my writing is not separate from my life; and I have spent my entir…"

"I am very conscious as a writer of removing myself and my personal concerns from what is going on in the text. I try …"