Homeward Bound.’ I find myself listening to that tune a lot when I’m traveling. Sitting in a railway station, wanting to go home, carrying all your stuff with you. Steven Hall Read Quote
I love books that give you space to climb inside there. And you have to run to keep up in places, and you have to fill in a lot of blanks yourself. So it almost becomes your story. Steven Hall Read Quote
Twitter is incredibly useful. It’s a great example of how the Internet is changing the way we engage with information and text. Above all else, this change in the nature of engagement is fascinating for me as a writer. Steven Hall Read Quote
He was a great man, my granddad, a very calm, logical and methodical guy. I suppose I’m trying to be more like him as I get older. Steven Hall Read Quote
The calmer and more well-ordered my desktop is, the more I can convince myself I’m on top of things. Steven Hall Read Quote
Longhand isn’t well suited to my way of writing. I tend to end up with dozens of pages of crossings-out and margin scribbles just to find one good paragraph, and it’s easy to lose your train of thought, working like that. Steven Hall Read Quote
I think there’s a danger of becoming too familiar with things, isn’t there? That you kind of, when you’re used to seeing the same things every day, you see those things come what may, and you don’t see maybe the interesting things just slightly out of view behind them. Steven Hall Read Quote
Sometimes, I seem to be only able to actually move and get going with things on the razor edge of possibly still managing whatever it is I’m supposed to do. I think, secretly, I might even get a buzz out of it. Maybe I crave the adrenalin like some sort of crazy gambler high on risking everything on the turn of a card. Steven Hall Read Quote
