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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“A woman can only satisfy and fulfil herself, I understood, when she establishes her own authority, and see beyond equality, realising how… — Ronald Frame Power 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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
“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 Broken ; heart 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
'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
I'm very interested in how corruption works - and it's not necessarily the way one might expect. — Ronald Frame Corruption 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