I know people who've passed every creative writing course under the sun and who are more analytically intelligent and far better-read than I, but who just can't write either fiction or drama. It's like any art-form. In order for talent… — Suhayl Saadi Copy Share Image
Words become, 'product', so that it is as though you'd bought a 'hand-cooked' packet of crisps; there are different makes, various flavours, but in… — Suhayl Saadi Copy Share Image
I know people who've passed every creative writing course under the sun and who are more analytically intelligent and far better-read than I, but… — Suhayl Saadi Copy Share Image
I don't buy the 'cynical voice'; I think we've had too much of that over the past few years; it's become deadening. I'm a… — Suhayl Saadi Copy Share Image
My motto is: write about anything you bloody well like; just make sure you do it effectively. We've all had all the emotions, the… — Suhayl Saadi Copy Share Image
In everything I write, I seek out something which I term, 'the music'. This is an energy centre which I cannot define and which… — Suhayl Saadi Copy Share Image
Inspiration comes from books, music, films and of course, living memories and life experiences, my own and those of people I've known or met;… — Suhayl Saadi Copy Share Image
In effective literature, ideas emerge from matter, not the other way around. So I squeeze the dirt for all it's worth and watch the… — Suhayl Saadi Copy Share Image
When I was a child, I used to go wandering - disused railway-lines, old barns, dry-stone walls, strangely Pre-Raphaelite copses - it's much more… — Suhayl Saadi Copy Share Image
I no longer attempt to rationalise inexplicable phenomena; there are explanations, Horatio, but they are likely to be beyond our ken. — Suhayl Saadi Copy Share Image
Talk about burning books and burning bushes, I think that reading an effective novel can be like being immersed in fire and emerging as… — Suhayl Saadi Copy Share Image
If you read many contemporary literary novels today, you may notice that regardless of the subject matter there's a 'sameness' about them, the way… — Suhayl Saadi Copy Share Image
