theangrygirldrunks:

“This is where I turned my life around completely. My life really changed in this flat. I feel I really became myself here, in that everything was stripped away, I’d made such a mess of things. But that was freeing, so I just thought, well, I want to write, and I wrote the book and, what is the worst that can happen? It gets turned down by every publisher in Britain, big deal.”