Ronald Frame
Ronald Frame
Ronald Frameis a prize-winning novelist, short story writer and dramatist. He was educated in Glasgow, and at Oxford University...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth23 May 1953
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For ten years, I went to piano lessons. I don't think I'm a very musical person, and the theory quite defeated me, but I had a freak aptitude for Debussy and Ravel.
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The gift of a writer as good as Dickens is not to explain everything; that way, the reader has, in terms of their imagination, somewhere to go.
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I like French films, Chabrol in particular. With him, you often get a skewed morality in which you sympathise with the person you shouldn't.
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I always felt journalists had a very clear idea of what they wanted to write about me before the interview began.
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'Ghost City' was actually one of the few instances of non-fiction that I had written, and I felt that I probably said what I wanted. I think it must be different for every author; I haven't done very much of it, and perhaps, in a way, I found it rather painful, which is why I don't really do it very often.
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Originally I wanted somewhere to set my short stories about the sort of people I recognise having grown up with. Carnbeg was staring me in the face all the time, only I had somehow failed to see that. Not seeing the wood for the trees, I suppose.