When I write a book I write the best that I can and so much of that for me is following the book’s demands, the subject’s requirements – I love books, I always have. They have always been one of the places where I have felt very happy in the world. When I was younger, I loved to read genre fiction – I loved the magic-carpet ride of story! Now I need other things – I need the beautiful particular and strange language and form which brings a writer’s book to life in me and speaks to my intellect, and, dare I say it, to my soul.