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Ronald Frame

I’m here to get the story on to the page. It would be good to catch your attention, and I have to make you want to read on, and I suppose I prefer you don’t actually think about the ‘how’ at all – the writing technique, the ‘style’, or even who it is that’s putting this together.

– Ronald Frame

Ronald Frame

Let’s say I find a lot of current American fiction too overwritten for my tastes, too self-conscious; I like something that’s simpler and more direct. The story is what matters to me. I hope to make it seem real to readers, as if it happened just like this – so I don’t want fancy descriptions getting in the way.

– Ronald Frame

Ronald Frame

What appears on the page comes out of your experience, and no-one is going to see it in quite the same way – so, that being so, you’re already doing something in a thoroughly individual and idiosyncratic way anyway.

– Ronald Frame

Ronald Frame

Originally I wanted somewhere to set my short stories about the sort of people I recognise having grown up with. Carnbeg was staring me in the face all the time, only I had somehow failed to see that. Not seeing the wood for the trees, I suppose.

– Ronald Frame

Ronald Frame

A writer’s life suits me. It’s fairly, well, other people might think it was actually rather dull, but that’s fine because I feel that my imagination is enough to kind of keep me happy.

– Ronald Frame

Ronald Frame

The funny thing about writing is, although you are writing about an experience which only you have had, you are trying to welcome other people into it, and there are ways I think of doing this, and one of them is through the senses, through the sounds and the smells.

– Ronald Frame

Ronald Frame

I’ve actually got quite a good memory. I’ve good recall. It’s often things which other people might not notice.

– Ronald Frame

Ronald Frame

I think, when you are writing non-fiction, you feel there’s an obligation to get it absolutely right, so all your factual details have to be, have, you know, to go through a long list of them and tick them. I’m not saying that’s not important in fiction, but I think you have a bit more leeway; you can suit yourself.

– Ronald Frame

Ronald Frame

Some people say that you should read people who think completely differently from you so that everything you read and everything that they say is a challenge to you but there’s something to be said for reading people where you think, ‘Yes, that’s how I would have said it if I could have found the words for it’.

– Ronald Frame

Ronald Frame

Ghost City’ was actually one of the few instances of non-fiction that I had written, and I felt that I probably said what I wanted. I think it must be different for every author; I haven’t done very much of it, and perhaps, in a way, I found it rather painful, which is why I don’t really do it very often.

– Ronald Frame

Ronald Frame

When I was younger, when I was at school, I did read a lot of fiction. I think as you get older perhaps you’re interested in essays and biographies and things like that. I think it’s just important to just read as much as you can.

– Ronald Frame

Ronald Frame

For ten years, I went to piano lessons. I don’t think I’m a very musical person, and the theory quite defeated me, but I had a freak aptitude for Debussy and Ravel.

– Ronald Frame

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