But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn into novels.
But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn into novels.
I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other novelists I meet: so I have to write about my own country, at the present time, because it's more or less all I know about!
I had no sense of any reputation that What a Carve Up might acquire - at the time I didn't even have a publisher, so my main worry was whether it was even going to see the light of day or not.
So no, I'm pleased if it's been influential for many readers, but at the time I didn't even know that it was going to have any readers.
Also I had financial worries because it took four years to write and we were living off my wife's income all that time, which wasn't very great.
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