When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement.
The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.
I'm such a first-person writer.
At the most basic level, I appreciate writers who have something to say.
I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
In anything I've ever written, all the characters sound like me, which I don't think is a bad thing. It makes sense. But I had always admired filmmakers who made movies that didn't sound like them at all.
There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.
There's a truth that comes through when an author performs his own work that is unique and special.
I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
