When I was younger, when I was at school, I did read a lot of fiction. I think as you get older… — Ronald Frame 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 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 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 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 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
