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 and more direct. The story is what matters to me. I hope to make it seem real to… — Ronald Frame 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 feeling that I haven't got a title because it usually means that you are left at the end… — Ronald Frame 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 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 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 - so,… — Ronald Frame 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 they were… — Ronald Frame 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 language from… — Ronald Frame 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 own immortality.” — Ronald Frame 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 of our… — Ronald Frame Copy Share Image
As a little boy, I apparently had a predilection for undoing latch gates, running up pathways and ringing doorbells - and then running off… — Ronald Frame 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 terrible and… — Ronald Frame Copy Share Image
