Don’t romanticise your “vocation”. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no “writer’s lifestyle”. All that matters is what you leave on the page.

Right now, we need writers who know the difference between production of a market commodity and the practice of an art. Developing written material to suit sales strategies in order to maximise corporate profit and advertising revenue is not the same thing as responsible book publishing or authorship.

I am in favor of strengthening the freedom of the market. At the same time, I am very unhappy about the conceptual restrictions imposed on the players in the market. This originates from the assumption that entrepreneurs are one-dimensional human beings, who are dedicated to one mission in their business lives − to maximize profit.

When I asked for advice on how to start such a business, many senior executives told me, "You can't possibly succeed doing what big companies have failed to do."

to isolate and to force myself to write

I just don't really see the dialectic between inside and outside, and corporate and revolutionary, as being as cut and dry as I used to.

I am my target audience

William Greaves’s film Symbiopsychotaxiplasm was an important early influence…Stuart Hall was a massive influence on this film

really watching a lot of work. Also finding the right people to associate with and learn from in terms of work.

I’d have lesser expectations — those expectations not being as great might actually be more effective