Katharine Quarmby – The Best Advice I Ever Received
Once you have a draft you have something to work with, and in many ways, that’s where the magic begins.
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Once you have a draft you have something to work with, and in many ways, that’s where the magic begins.
Montaigne was dead set against authoritarians, system-makers and pedants. He celebrated diversity, personal liberty and tolerance.
I’d rather be thought of as a dissident than a company man; poetry should never have an office in City…
Ignore those who tell you that your poetry is too personal, too intimate, or lyrical. Remember, these are the very…
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Just write the next line. Someone says something; there’s always a reply. Now I could begin.
This is the book I come back to once a year. This is the story that makes me want to…
If you write too, let me encourage you to write from the writer in you, before the word “writer” takes…
Several points from theatre still hang over my computer. What makes them want to come back from the bar after…
Ultimately, Tomine strikes me as that rarest of things, a genuinely truthful writer, and I can think of no higher…
I’d have a go at anything, because my reading habit isn’t so much about the book itself as where I…
I don’t want someone’s opinion, I want wisdom. Not the same thing at all. Opinion is everywhere.