The Stammer

No, i didn't realize that it was a direct result of thing. It just came i at a time. I had a terrible problem ofy name, because it's a cas ancank and the tisan - those sounds were terrible. And yet, writing becomes an enormous relief, because you really can't stammer with ta hard k sound on the page, it's lovely. The novelist david mitchell, who also has a stammer, has said that he thinks his writing, and particularly his vocabulary, is due to having three or four words for every difficult one.