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When do you write?
Within 40 minutes of waking up. You're closest to your unconscious state at that time.
What is the best piece of advice a parent gave you?
My mother told me, ''a good handbag makes the outfit.''
How many words do you write per day?
I don't aim for a certain number and I never check at the end. I write until I start writing drivel, which is usually around noon.
Who would you most like to sit next to at a dinner party?
Donna Karan, the fashion designer.
What are you scared of?
Falling. Confined spaces. And I'm a hypochondriac so I constantly think I'm going to die from some awful illness.
What keeps you awake at night?
Insomnia. And I wake in the night from very vivid dreams.
When do you feel most free?
When I sit down in the morning and I'm a third of the way through a novel that's going well.
Who would you choose to play you in a film about your life?
Helen Mirren.
If you could own any painting, what would it be?
A Lucian Freud called Interior at Paddington.
Which literary character most resembles you?
I can't think of anyone literary, but I feel like the songs of Joni Mitchell are about my life.
What is your favourite place?
Tel Aviv.
How do you cure writer's block?
I walk down Bond Street and look at the clothes.
Can you remember the first novel you read?
Hugely precociously it was Crime and Punishment, when I was 13.
What makes you cross to read?
Novels about nothing.
Source:
FT.com
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