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" A lot of my literature deals with these people who are somehow magnetic because they have that ability to step over lines. "
Over
Step
People
" Apex predators are good for an environment in terms of biodiversity and trophic cascade - we have very few. But realistically, only a few areas could sustain free-roaming wolves in Britain, mostly in Scotland. "
Wolves
Environment
Good
" Art history became an A-level option at my school the year I started sixth form. This happened because another student and I cajoled and bullied the head of the art department into arranging it with the examination board. "
Head
Student
School
" Daniel Woodrell has made a name as a master of prose with personality - a densely descriptive, gamey form of storytelling, one might say traditional storytelling - of late rather an unfashionable mode. "
Master
Personality
Late
" Dystopian novels, such as Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four,' often tend to site their despotised or deformed civilisations in urban environments. "
Often
Site
Urban
" Fear is a relative thing; its effects are relative to power. "
Relative
Power
Fear
" For about two years, while researching 'The Wolf Border,' I was a complete wolf bore. I would regurgitate everything I was researching, whether people were interested or not. "
Everything
Wolf
Two
" For every prescriptive idea about the craft of fiction, there's at least one writer who makes a virtue of the contrary. "
Craft
Writer
Fiction
" For its speculations to be taken seriously, dystopian fiction must be part of a discussion of contemporary society, a projection of ongoing political failures perhaps, or the wringing of present jeopardy for future disaster. "
Present
Society
Future
" Having judged a few competitions, it's clear that novelists are often the laziest short story writers. "
Clear
Story
Short
" I am a feminist, although I always worry saying that because you then get people asking you about the 1970s. "
People
I Am
Always
" I can gabble on now, but I couldn't when I was a kid, so I spent a lot of time in my own head on the moors by myself. It felt like writing was the right way to express myself. "
Writing
Time
Myself
" I don't like novels that tie everything up in a plot-y way. I always think that's not really true of life, particularly of people in power. "
Power
Think
Always
" 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. "
Writing
Dream
Who
" I don't see that books can be written without political context - not if they're relevant and ambitious. "
Books
See
Without
" I don't think practitioners should necessarily be advertising their work. "
Should
Work
Think
" 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. "
Better
Way
Some People
" 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. "
Bills
Ideas
Words
" I like extreme situations: people pushed out of their comfort zones; the civil veneer stripped off. "
Extreme
Out
People
" I'm a home-roamer and can't do study or office scenarios. "
Study
Scenarios
Office
" I married an American. He was from the Pacific Northwest but went to law school in the South, so I was living in Virginia and North Carolina. "
Virginia
School
American
" I'm very aware of modern countryside issues, such as rewilding: how, as science progresses, we begin to understand that a healthy ecosystem is multiform. "
Science
Understand
Healthy
" In my early 20s, connecting with fiction was a difficult process. There seemed to be little rhyme or reason to what was meaningful, what convinced, and what made sense. "
Process
Early
Sense
" I studied the short story as part of my creative writing course at university but then set off as a novelist. Generally, there is a sense that even if you want to write short stories, you need to do a novel first. "
Writing
You
Story
" I tend to research as I write so that the narrative can take priority, which is important for a piece of fiction, I think, finding out facts as and when I need to. "
Facts
Research
Need
" I think you can tell any human story in a particular place. "
Story
Place
Human
" It's a lovely feeling, just working away at the desk, putting words down, building words up... I think you have to be aware that what you're doing is not just a private act, it's a societal thing. "
Think
You
Words
" It's been noted that writing about the production of art is a masquerade or metaphor for writing about writing. This may be true, there are similarities - both the verbal and the visual represent the thing or the concept. "
Art
Writing
Visual
" It's taken me 15 years to feel I might be able to write and publish short stories, and for the assiduous checks of the industry to allow some through. "
Short
Me
Years
" It's very interesting to me that the nationalist movement in Scotland has become so positive and self-reflective rather than anti-English. The referendum in 2014 was peaceful, for all its deeply and passionately divided people. "
Peaceful
Me
Divided
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