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I was brought up in the north of England, which is probably no rougher than anywhere else, but I remember as a child being kind of mesmerized by girls fighting on the playground.

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One of the things I try to do with my writing is try to evoke the spirit of the place. I think these things imprint on the landscape and the culture.

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My writing is called exotic or avant-garde because I write about rural places. Has it really come to this, that if you write about the country you are avant-garde? How did this happen? Modern agriculture and spaces are still so relevant.

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I felt impelled to write. It felt demonic, and I wanted to improve, the way some people habitually pick up a guitar and get better at playing it and making up songs.

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I don't reckon there are many writers who start out really expecting writing to be an attainable occupation. Well, I didn't. It was a pipe dream.

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I have ideas. I hear voices. Words accumulate. It's still an overriding impulse. And I'm self-employed, which means I have to be sensible and motivated about paying the bills.

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Writing, and its theatre of operation, is better than working shifts packing frozen sausages; that's all I need to think about if I'm having difficulties.

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The short story is very good at looking at shadow psychologies and how the system breaks down underneath.

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I am a feminist, although I always worry saying that because you then get people asking you about the 1970s.

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My work is of me; it's not me. I want it to be far more extraordinary than I am.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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