1) A thought from 'The Smoking Diaries' by Simon Gray
3) Authors can be a model for ways of thinking in an increasingly celebrity-driven world
4) Banning a book creates the opposite effect of creating interest in the book
5) Do I see history repeating itself
6) Elizabethan pamphleteer Thomas Nashe comes closest to journalist....
7) Every contact leaves traces, so I pursue the characters who brushed against Shakespeare
8) Great sense of enthusiasm and excitement in India for the written word
9) Have I been resisting the temptation of writing about the 'here and now'
10) How do I write
11) Information from the world of secret service has to be taken as a performance
12) Journalist vs Author - the differences
13) Literature always struggles within a society which as a whole undervalues it
14) Writer doesn't have the immediacy of impact that a musician has
16) My next book is about a black slave boy from Jamaica
17) On the books pages of newspapers
18) Opposition from the followers of Marlowe
19) Playhouses had their finger right on the pulse of contemporary culture
20) Reading is not high on the agenda because it seems an awful commitment of time and effort
21) Recognise that writers aren't a race apart
23) Shakespeare's deposition in the court is the beginning - (author reading)
24) The book trade has been hijacked by the marketing department
25) The Christopher Marlowe case
26) The good journalist always goes beyond the safe environment
27) 'The Lodger' catches Shakespeare in a moment of ordinariness
28) The tale of Thomas Coryate 'the English fakir' who walked to India
29) There is a great interest now in the UK in translated work
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