That boy is talented. You don’t develop those gifts in houses or in schools.

Readership is highly dependent upon format and distribution as much as it is on content.

The writing talent of Edinburgh is textured - we have poets, novelists, non-fiction writers, dramatists and more.

The hard fact is that writing is available to readers because of market factors as much as particular writing talent.

I knew that I was talented. I was positive about that. I wasn’t sure exactly what I was talented at, but I was ambitious enough to wait it out and see what turned up.