Nov 13, 2023
How do you write?
I write longhand. I love using pen and paper. There’s something slow and intimate about the process that allows you to creep up on the subject. I can pursue an idea for years. If there’s one gift I have as a writer, it’s patience. Sometimes, I think that I just out-patience the idea, and after four or five years, it just comes out with its hands up. “You’re still fucking here? I surrender.”
— Mike McCormack, from "Mike McCormack: ‘If I’ve one gift as a writer, it’s patience’", interview by Killian Fox. (The Guardian, November 11, 2023)
