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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Robin Blake – Life-changing Literature
Montaigne was dead set against authoritarians, system-makers and pedants. He celebrated diversity, personal liberty and tolerance.
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Neil Rollinson – Why I Write
I’d rather be thought of as a dissident than a company man; poetry should never have an office in City…
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Cherry Smyth – Letter To My Younger Self
Ignore those who tell you that your poetry is too personal, too intimate, or lyrical. Remember, these are the very…
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Wendy Moore – Writers Who Inspire Me
For her ability to seize precisely the right historical detail to fix a story in time and place, Bainbridge is…
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Deborah Gearing – The Best Advice I Ever Received
Just write the next line. Someone says something; there’s always a reply. Now I could begin.
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Anna Reynolds – Life-changing Literature
This is the book I come back to once a year. This is the story that makes me want to…
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John Siddique – How Writing Changes The Writer
If you write too, let me encourage you to write from the writer in you, before the word “writer” takes…
Christie Dickason – The Best Advice I Ever Received
Several points from theatre still hang over my computer. What makes them want to come back from the bar after…
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Doug Johnstone – Life-changing Literature
Ultimately, Tomine strikes me as that rarest of things, a genuinely truthful writer, and I can think of no higher…
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Philippa Stockley – My Reading Habits
I’d have a go at anything, because my reading habit isn’t so much about the book itself as where I…
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Louise Foxcroft – The Best Advice I Ever Received
I don’t want someone’s opinion, I want wisdom. Not the same thing at all. Opinion is everywhere.