I'm very interested in how corruption works - and it's not necessarily the way one might expect. — Ronald Frame Corruption Copy Share Image
“Life is an enigma. We have to approach it not scientifically but poetically.” — Ronald Frame Enigma Copy Share Image
I've actually got quite a good memory. I've good recall. It's often things which other people might not notice. — Ronald Frame Actually Copy Share Image
I always felt journalists had a very clear idea of what they wanted to write about me before the interview began. — Ronald Frame About Copy Share Image
“Life is an enigma. We have to approach it not 'just' scientifically, but poetically. ” — Ronald Frame Life Copy Share Image
As a writer, you need a strong sense of self-belief. And when it comes to writing, I've always had that. — Ronald Frame Always Copy Share Image
“We were perfectly decorous together. It took the will of both of us. I trusted him with me, and myself with him.” — Ronald Frame Together Copy Share Image
Titles either come to you at the beginning or they don't come to you at all, I find, and I hate the… — Ronald Frame Around Copy Share Image
'Ghost City' began as a idea. I felt that I hadn't read or heard a great deal about the sort of life… — Ronald Frame About Copy Share Image
For ten years, I went to piano lessons. I don't think I'm a very musical person, and the theory quite defeated me,… — Ronald Frame Aptitude Copy Share Image
I like French films, Chabrol in particular. With him, you often get a skewed morality in which you sympathise with the person… — Ronald Frame Films Copy Share Image
“Dancing takes a certain lightness, a spring in the step, an elasticity in the calves; a kind of joie de vivre ,… — Ronald Frame Dance Copy Share Image
“That’s what friends are for,” Sheba said. “I don’t know what they’re for,” I told her. “So that we don’t get out… — Ronald Frame Friends Copy Share Image
“You care for empresses and queens?” I asked him. “No. For tragic heroines.” “Why them?” “Suffering and courageous women who deserve their… — Ronald Frame Tragic hero Copy Share Image
Sundays in my teens were spent on homework: from 8 am until at least 8 pm, with stoppages to be fed and… — Ronald Frame Am Copy Share Image
I'm here to get the story on to the page. It would be good to catch your attention, and I have to… — Ronald Frame About Copy Share Image
I can remember somebody once saying to me that they thought my life must be less real than these other people that… — Ronald Frame About Copy Share Image
“Why d’you think she did it?” I told him I had no idea. He seemed disappointed that I shouldn’t know. “A broken… — Ronald Frame Asked Copy Share Image
'Ghost City' was actually one of the few instances of non-fiction that I had written, and I felt that I probably said… — Ronald Frame Actually Copy Share Image
The funny thing about writing is, although you are writing about an experience which only you have had, you are trying to… — Ronald Frame About Copy Share Image
Let's say I find a lot of current American fiction too overwritten for my tastes, too self-conscious; I like something that's simpler… — Ronald Frame American Copy Share Image
Some people say that you should read people who think completely differently from you so that everything you read and everything that… — Ronald Frame Challenge Copy Share Image
We become attached to certain characters in novels, mostly because they have some mystery attaching to them. We re-read the books, but… — Ronald Frame Attached Copy Share Image
“Martin suggests, let's see Chartres on the way back. The cathedral with its bleached stone and green roofs is visible across miles… — Ronald Frame Chartres Copy Share Image
A writer's life suits me. It's fairly, well, other people might think it was actually rather dull, but that's fine because I… — Ronald Frame Actually Copy Share Image
What appears on the page comes out of your experience, and no-one is going to see it in quite the same way… — Ronald Frame Anyway Copy Share Image
The gift of a writer as good as Dickens is not to explain everything; that way, the reader has, in terms of… — Ronald Frame Books Copy Share Image
“The purple haze of the wych elms; the blue flash of a kingfisher’s wings; the statuesque rightness of the milch cows in… — Ronald Frame Money Copy Share Image
I think if you study people in the street today, you do sometimes feel that they have taken their behavior and their… — Ronald Frame Behavior Copy Share Image
“A woman can only satisfy and fulfil herself, I understood, when she establishes her own authority, and see beyond equality, realising how… — Ronald Frame Authority Copy Share Image
When I was younger, when I was at school, I did read a lot of fiction. I think as you get older… — Ronald Frame Biographies Copy Share Image
Originally I wanted somewhere to set my short stories about the sort of people I recognise having grown up with. Carnbeg was… — Ronald Frame About Copy Share Image
As a little boy, I apparently had a predilection for undoing latch gates, running up pathways and ringing doorbells - and then… — Ronald Frame Again Copy Share Image
I think, when you are writing non-fiction, you feel there's an obligation to get it absolutely right, so all your factual details… — Ronald Frame Absolutely Copy Share Image
At the age of nine, I could cross the length of Glasgow on a succession of buses, wearing regulation garter-topped stockings and… — Ronald Frame Age Copy Share Image
I can remember in my early days of writing going to sort of writers' functions and parties and things like that, and… — Ronald Frame Because Copy Share Image
