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Shelley Harris – Why I Write
I write because I found out early that it was very, very good fun: there was licence and liberty in…
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Check out the latest news from the RLF, WritersMosaic highlights, and Collected – our collection of interviews, reflections and articles exploring the literary life and world of writers today.
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Ron Butlin – My Reading Habits
I’ve travelled all over the world from Nigeria to Bali, but hardly a day has gone by without giving myself…
Doug Johnstone – The Best Advice I Ever Received
It’s good, he said, but you can still cut it. He was right. It turns out you can always lose…
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Maggie Butt – Why I Write
I was taken to the library for a fresh crop of books every week; a magic carpet ride to a…
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Cynthia Rogerson – Writers Who Inspire Me
Overall when I write I try to replicate not so much these writers’ characters, or plots or styles, but the…
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Tim Walker – Why I Write
I realised that – belatedly – I wanted more of a say. So that was the first reason I wanted…
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Lucy Jago – Why I Write
When I write I disappear. I can go anywhere. I am entirely free.
Rob Chapman – My Reading Habits
I am a voracious and obsessive researcher, quite happy to read or at least skim-read an entire book in the…
Horatio Clare – Why I Write
Recording these things as I look at them and telling you about them as exactly as I can gives me…
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Katherine Clements – How I Write
Magpie-like I collect these tantalising fragments. They stay with me, glittering at the edges of consciousness until I pick one…
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Basir Sultan Kazmi – The Best Advice I Ever Received
Read the masters of the past, and learn how and how not, to write. If you think independently reading others…
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Ali Knight – Why I Write
If I had ever experienced a tenth of what I write about I would have long ago been consigned to…