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'The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't. It's incredibly annoying for us scribblers. A lot of the time you're simply deciding how far down the path of unlikeliness you can go while still retaining the willing suspension of disbelief in the reader.'

'You get so caught up in what you're writing - action sequences tend to do that more than anything else because you're living it, and feeling for your characters.'

'I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.'

Author Extraordinaire Ian (M) Banks

Interview With Bestselling Author Margaret Graham

What made you get into writing? Having a 4th child. She was lovely but seldom slept and mithered a great deal. I needed to ‘get away’ even if only for half an hour. So I started writing a book about my mother’s rather interesting life growing up in the North East just after the 1st World War. Halfway down the first page I realised I didn’t really know my mum in that way, only anecdotes. So it…