Tim Walker – The Best Advice I Ever Received
I imagine The Rolling Stones worrying about disturbing the neighbours or Jackson Pollock fretting about spilling paint on his studio…
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Louise Foxcroft – Letter To My Younger Self
As I grew I spent so many hours reading in bed that my mother took me to the family doctor…
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Ruth Thomas – How I Write
Becoming a mother meant that my physical space as well as my mental space went through a lot of changes;…
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Wendy Wallace – Life-changing Literature
Part-philosophy, part-erotica, part-poetic stream of consciousness, The Lover translates the strangeness of Duras’ world, of being in it, onto the…
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James McConnachie – Letter To My Younger Self
Maybe you’re just lost in confusion like when you got that first ever commission to write a book review for…
Jackie Wills – My Reading Habits
This is reading as a meander and a different kind of immersion in a subject than the reading I do…
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Kitty Fitzgerald – Life-changing Literature
I identified with these hobos. I lived in digs with my parents in one room. They were in a small…
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Maggie Butt – How I Write
That first phrase or line is like a magnet drawing other words to it and they begin to gather, sometimes…
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Horatio Clare – Letter To My Younger Self
University life will be blighted somewhat by a feeling that you can more or less cruise through the degree which…
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Alicia Foster – How Writing Changes The Writer
There are enough stories of great writers who are impossible to live with to suggest that having writing talent, and…
Lucy Jago – How I Write
I only turn to the computer once the itch to get writing is very strong, and I worry that they…
Ali Knight – Life-changing Literature
In my spare time I would escape into any book I could find which meant that one day, by chance,…