Sundays in my teens were spent on homework: from 8 am until at least 8 pm, with stoppages to be fed and watered. I was carrying up to ten subjects simultaneously. Ronald Frame Read Quote
For ten years, I went to piano lessons. I don’t think I’m a very musical person, and the theory quite defeated me, but I had a freak aptitude for Debussy and Ravel. Ronald Frame Read Quote
As a little boy, I apparently had a predilection for undoing latch gates, running up pathways and ringing doorbells – and then running off again and away before the door was opened behind me. Ronald Frame Read Quote
At the age of nine, I could cross the length of Glasgow on a succession of buses, wearing regulation garter-topped stockings and compulsory cap and – if I’d done well enough to earn the honour in last week’s test – with a First World War medal on a striped ribbon pinned to my brown blazer. I must have looked like a chocolate soldier. Ronald Frame Read Quote
I can remember in my early days of writing going to sort of writers’ functions and parties and things like that, and I used to get very irritated because when people heard that you came from the suburbs, they had this notion that it was very un-cool to come from there. Ronald Frame Read Quote
Ghost City’ began as a idea. I felt that I hadn’t read or heard a great deal about the sort of life that I thought I had, and I just thought that it would be interesting to sit down and see if I could put it down onto paper. Ronald Frame Read Quote
The gift of a writer as good as Dickens is not to explain everything; that way, the reader has, in terms of their imagination, somewhere to go. Ronald Frame Read Quote
We become attached to certain characters in novels, mostly because they have some mystery attaching to them. We re-read the books, but we’re still left wanting to know more. In my own case, it was ‘Great Expectations’ and Miss Havisham in particular. Luckily, writers have the option of making up the knowledge that reading doesn’t supply. Ronald Frame Read Quote
I’m very interested in how corruption works – and it’s not necessarily the way one might expect. Ronald Frame Read Quote
As a writer, you need a strong sense of self-belief. And when it comes to writing, I’ve always had that. Ronald Frame Read Quote
