I have a backlog of novels which I would love to be working on and would be working on if I were not obliged to hold down a full time job.

I don't see myself as experimenting in any conscious way, it's perhaps that certain books require different densities of language.

I suppose everything about one's self is recontextualised in an alien environment.

I think the twentieth century should have taught us how 'civilisation' is the thinnest of veneers. I was reading something last year where a state torturer sai…

I regard criticism as an art, and if in this country and in this age it is practiced with honesty, it is no more remunerative than the work of an avant-garde f…

The only other important thing to be said about Fear & Loathing at this time is that it was fun to write, and that's rare - for me, at least, because I've alwa…

If I had the luxury of working as a full time writer, I think you would see novels appearing on a much more regular, and frequent, basis.