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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.

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.

I Also Paint, Draw And I'm Into Film And Photography As Well, And The Same Thing Applies To All Of Them. You're Presenting This Material To The General Public And Hoping That They're Going To 'get' What You're Doing. Some Don't, Some Do.

I Don't Know Anyone Who Actually Likes The Dark Or Night-time. I Don't Care How Much They Say It Doesn't Bother Them. That's Why We Used To Huddle In Caves And Light Fires When The Sun Went Down.

Because I'm Such A Creative Person, And I've Always Got My Nose In A Book, I Suppose It Was Only A Matter Of Time Before Non-fiction Turned Into Fiction Again. But I Never Consciously Set Out To Become A Writer And I Never Thought I'd Be Doing The Things I'm Doing Today.