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I haven't read a single word that a critic has written about me since 1994.
Word of mouth works now, much more than ever. @-reply every single person.
I get up at 5.30am, sluice myself and have two Weetabix and some mint tea, before starting to write by 6am.
I wrote 'Monster' and thought that it would solve a lot of my problems, that I'd have money in the bank, but I felt no different. I was still searching for something.
Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.
I can't tell you what I had for breakfast, but I can sing every single word of rock and roll.
I guess every single word I've ever said is going to be dissected now.
The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
'The Iliad' includes some snappy sports reporting, and writers ever since have been probing athletes for signifiers, for metaphor amped by grit under pressure.
