The Word Cloud

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• Are your reading habits ...?
  Sophisticated
  
  Who is your favourite author(s)?
  way too many to choose
  And your all time favourite books? (You can change these at any time, by the way ...)
  Rebecca; Les Jeux Sonts Faits; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; Pride and Prejudice; Jude the Obscure; After This; The Waves; Blonde.
  What are your working habits when you write?
  Disciplined
  
  Are you the edit-every-sentence-ten-times type, or do you prefer to let rip?
  Prefer to let rip and edit afterwards
  
  Your ultimate writing ambition?
  Apart from literary immortality, having busloads of tourists visiting places I've lived in after my death and weeping as they touch the plaque commemorating my all-too-brief time there, to make a decent living out of it (and I don't mean just money).
  Your worst habit?
  I love adjectives and adverbs so editing means generally the same thing - getting rid of them all
  Your opinion on the books industry?
  It is a tough game, but everyone does their best
  
  Where do you write?
  kitchen and front room