Writing as Hard Work
5 August 2002
Writing as Hard Work
My job has fundamentally involved locking myself in a tiny cell-like room for between four and five hours a day and struggling to bring to life characters, plots, themes, story arcs, denouements. There are writers who love writing. I am not one of them. I find it demanding, often boring, extremely stressful and often agonising. It dominates my life well beyond the confines of that office.'
Tim Lott, author of Rumours of a Hurricane, writing about an author's life in The Times
