I get to my desk (in a very small room at the top of the house) at about 10, and fiddle about with the height of the desk and the chair until I’m comfortable. I have a desk that I can raise or lower according to the state of my aching back. Sometimes I stand at it, and sometimes I have it high up to write at, and sometimes a bit lower to type.

I have two kids, so once we get them off to school, I tool around on email and Facebook longer than I should. Then I shut those things down and get to work.

On October 13, 2020, David Lynch rose and did what he had typically been doing each morning when he awoke during a long-term Covid isolation in his house and work studio just off Mulholland Drive in the Hollywood Hills. First, while filming himself for his YouTube channel, he swirled ten numbered balls in a large glass jar, his eyes averted, then picked one. “Today’s number is ten,” he declared.

I love swimming and I'll still be found in the pool, but now I'll be able to do without the 04:30 alarm!

Because I loved it when I was young.

My university tutor Raymond Williams.

People need justice.

I don’t think I am either as ruthlessly selfish as I was then, but I think that unhappiness made me terribly terribly selfish.

they did what good teachers are meant to do, which is inspire you to love literature.

Not reading medicine.