I Prefer To Write First Drafts As

People Tend To Think Of Their Lives As Having A Dramatic Arc, Because They Read Too Much Fiction.

I Do Have A Fantasy Life In Which I Can Grout Bathrooms - But Not For A Living.

A Short Story Is A Shard, A Sliver, A Vignette. It's A Biopsy On The Human Condition But It Doesn't Have This Capacity To Think Autonomously For Itself.

So I Was Smacked Up On The Prime Minister's Jet – Big Deal.

Television Is The Same As The Telephone, And The Same As The World Wide Web For That Matter. People Who Become Obsessed By The Peculiarities Of These Communications Media Have Simply Failed To Adjust To The Shock Of The Old. People Who Bleat On About The 'artistic' Potential Of Television Qua Television Are Equally Deluded.