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When I was seven or eight, I got run over and was actually under the car, which was scary. I just ran out; it was totally my fault. I was fine – all I got was a tiny scar on my knee.
It is a very rare affliction. A GP would expect to meet it once in a career and this form of brain cancer is unpredictable and dangerous. Usually, this tumour might give you only a two-year span since its discovery. I have had two operations and one course of radiotherapy and now three chemotherapies (one currently starting). My death is, in a sense, imminent. I say to myself: I am dying. Something in my head is hurrying to kill me.
Death is always close.
I’ve been in six car accidents – none of them while I was driving.
When you can barely stand to look at someone without turning away to catch your breath.
Happiness is mostly intrinsic: you’re either a happy soul or a miserable bastard. Fortunately, I’m the former.
Laying down slabs for the council.
Artists who do their own thing, without compromise: Ken Loach, Bob Dylan and James Kelman.
There’s been the odd beauty on the dance floor I really ought to have gone home with.
I haven’t achieved anything of note yet.
Jo Nesbø, Sue Perkins, Eve Ensler, Bernadine Evaristo, Jenny Diski, Julian Clary
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