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Author Snapshot Terry White

1.Who are your favorite authors?: P G Woodhouse; Alexander Kent; Bernard Cornwell; Wilbur Smith; Robert Goddard; Len Deighton; Bill Bryson; Tom Clancy & James Clavell
2.Who has had a major influence on your writing?: P G Woodhouse for the humour and ‘Lucky Jim’ by Kingsley Amis for the anti-hero.
3.Can you name at least one book that you never finished?: ‘The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society’.
4.What word or words do you always have trouble spelling?: Surprise; Definite;
5.What three adjectives best describe you?: Funny, Imaginative, Careful.
6.Which of your characters would you most like to be and why?: My principal character - Marcus Moon. He’s my alter ego.
7.Which author would you invite to dinner?: Bernard Cornwell.
8.Where do you write?: In my office which is attached to my house
9.When do you write?: I’m a mood writer, but usually early mornings and late at night.
10.What makes you happy?: Seeing all my family getting on well together and having a warm, loving relationship
11.What do you most fear?: Falling into a deep hole from a great height
12.What is your favorite vice?: I enjoy all of them.
13.What is the quality you most like in yourself?: Loyalty.
14.What are the qualities you most like in your friends?: Loyalty.
15.Would you be lying if you said your works were not autobiographical?: They combine some autobiographical stuff with some hearsay from others coupled with a lot of imagination.
16.What part of your personality do you detest?: I don’t detest any part but I would like to find it easier to be more sociable.
17.What is your favorite adjective?: Superb.
18.What is your favorite book?: A childhood book – ‘Coral Island’ by R M Ballantyne. It made me love reading.
19.What book would you read three times?: I like re-reading my own books but for other authors I think ‘Coral Island’.
20.To whom would you award the Nobel Prize for Literature and why?: That’s far beyond me, I’m not pretentious enough to do that!