Reflections

What I love about nature is the mud on the tread of my boots.

If we are to cherish our sensibilities, we need to manage the dangers.

‘I have a responsibility to make sure that anything I write does the job of working emotionally in the world.’

‘Writing a difficult scene in a play, there will be a jolt of recognition relating to more personal intimacies present in the novel I’m writing.’

Success carried lightly

Landing on a hostile moon

Getting to the roots of it

An ode to brotherly love

‘every book is its own wild landscape, living and breathing inside the body before spilling out like marrow from the pen’

‘Medusa as a Gorgon became a feminist icon of sorts, for to look at her is to be reduced to stone from one withering stare’

‘The clock radio shocks me awake. A bulletin about the first ever AI-generated popstar to be signed by a record label.’

‘The best children’s stories assume a child’s capacity to absorb difficult feelings that don’t resolve.’