Paul Kane
Paul Kane
Paul Kanewas an Irish-born Canadian painter, famous for his paintings of First Nations peoples in the Canadian West and other Native Americans in the Oregon Country...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth3 September 1810
antidote count family great incredibly loved lucky man
My family and loved ones are also a great antidote to this. They're incredibly important to me and I count myself a lucky man because of them.
fairly trim writer
As a writer I'm fairly focused. I'm something of a perfectionist and will write much more than I need to at first, then trim off the fat.
forum seat table
They want a seat at the table and they have a forum at which to have a seat.
emirates expect figures month offices post present roughly throughout
Figures are very sketchy at present, but roughly we expect around 8000 to 10,000 applications a month through the 78 post offices of Emirates Post located throughout the country.
joe year
Joe Barnes was the racer. If they want to do a one year memorial, that's great, but Joe would've just wanted us to go out there and have fun.
competition entered fiction given happened instead nowhere wonder
I sometimes wonder what would've happened if I'd entered the competition instead - I'd probably have come nowhere and given up on the whole fiction game.
special-people groups world
I'm fortunate in that I'm a lecturer too and this gets me out and about and away from the computer. I also have loads of friends all around the world, plus a core group of special people in my life that I can lean on, chat to, or just hang with.
faces politics mask
The face of totalitarianism turned out to be a mask - obviously - but the face of Capitalism has no face at all.
mistake giving people
I can look back at stuff I wrote in my early days and squirm at some of the mistakes I made. But we're all learning every day; we never stop. I just hope people keep on liking what I do. That gives me such a kick.
lonely writing computer
Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and lots of writers live quite isolated lives.