The Word Cloud

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• If you write in more than one area, what is your next most favoured genre?
  Memoir
  
  Are your reading habits ...?
  Omnivorous
  
  Who is your favourite author(s)?
  Rushdie, Le Carre, Tharoor
  And your all time favourite books? (You can change these at any time, by the way ...)
  Shame by Rushdie, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by Le Carre, The Honourable Schoolboy by Le Carre, Moon Tiger by Fitzgerald, Oleander, Jacaranda by Lively, Freedom and Organisation by Russell, Money by Amis, and Bookless in Baghdad by Tharoor.
  What are your working habits when you write?
  Procastinatory
  
  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?
  The next big Kerala book set in the forties and fifties. Even if it never sells.
  Your worst habit?
  Reading and thinking when I should be writing.
  Your opinion on the books industry?
  Too much celebrity and hype, but good books still get through
  
  Where do you write?
  All over the place
  What else do you want Word Clouders to know? eg: do you have 9 cats / like paragliding / eat nothing but tinned fish / work in the bath / live in Kettering?
  I love two things I do badly - not including writing that is. Gardening and cooking veg, Malayalee style. I am a 74 year-old waiting anxiously to grow up. Still time??