Eddie Braben

“When you’re eulogised for being a great writer, as I are, it can be a burden, the idolatry is getting a bit much as well. It’s got to the stage that I’m now afraid to go out in public. I’ve lost count of the number of times people have come up to me, people I’ve never clapped eyes on before. They come up to me and say, 'You’re too old to be selling The Big Issue.”