WriterInConversation

Christopher Bigsby interviews the world's greatest writers at the Arthur Miller Centre's International Literary Festival, UEA. Published by @UnthankBooks

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“To be a writer, the first thing you must do is to kill your parents” John Fowles http://t.co/5QO2XI8cm4

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“You actually had to be a better novelist to find something interesting in the fifties” A.S. Byatt http://t.co/YMevo8qCnw

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“When a book is in the hands of the reader it becomes a different book” Amy Tan http://t.co/hehhZot9tB

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“There were no greater moral choices than in the Second World War” Antony Beevor http://t.co/5QO2XI8cm4

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“You follow the line of fact as far as you can and then you take the swan dive off the cliff” Geraldine Brooks http://t.co/YMevo8qCnw

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“I have always seen my writing career as an opportunity to learn how to write” Jane Smiley http://t.co/hehhZot9tB

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“I think the questions of rhythm and pace are very important” Salman Rushdie http://t.co/hehhZot9tB

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“You can’t write a thousand words about the world without getting something wrong” Ian McEwan http://t.co/5QO2XI8cm4

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“I just want to be a story teller” Hanif Kureishi http://t.co/YMevo8qCnw

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“I don’t think you can really teach how to write. I think you can teach how not to write” Javier Marias http://t.co/hehhZot9tB

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“Telling apart what has been invented and what you have remembered is very difficult” Michael Frayn http://t.co/5QO2XI8cm4

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“I once said that I became a novelist because I was bored, and there is an element of truth to that” Margaret Drabble http://t.co/YMevo8qCnw

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“You can��t fight dictatorships with novels” Javier Marias http://t.co/hehhZot9tB

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“Sentences are the essence, for me, they are the most essential element” Michael Chabon http://t.co/5QO2XI8cm4

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“It fascinates me that the novelist almost never talks about smells” John Banville http://t.co/YMevo8qCnw

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“Metaphor is central to any discussion about my plays but it is not a phrase I use very much” Tom Stoppard http://t.co/hehhZot9tB

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“I am always wary of interpreting what I have written” Philip Pullman http://t.co/5QO2XI8cm4

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“Like everybody who writes anything I believe that every sentence is deathless” Clive James http://t.co/YMevo8qCnw

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“I am totally dependent on the reader’s generosity and intelligence” Toni Morrison http://t.co/hehhZot9tB

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"We are all relatively minor players in other people’s lives” Alan Hollinghurst http://t.co/5QO2XI8cm4