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The sweaters with worn-out elbows were on their way out; writers were starting to look fashionable, even sexy. The sweaters…
Thinking, telling, writing began with the ocean of story, between the dusty Northern plains of Delhi and the southern, sultry…
Tobias Jones on how he built his own desk. After years of making-do with desks he disliked – or which…
My agent thought the first hundred pages were the best thing I’d ever written, and wanted the rest as soon…
Stephanie Norgate shares her notebook practice, and confesses to a deep fascination with the notebooks of others. Stephanie Norgate explores…
I copied any skill I admired, including knitting and skipping, which worried my father for a while. Then I wrote…
Use words like Impressionists use paint; dab at the scene, use the colours and sensations to fill the reader’s head.…
Once I start writing I stay away from anything similar; the temptation to mimic someone else’s perfect prose is too…
Marcus Chown on living through a London lockdown. Marcus Chown describes the early months of the lockdown in London, and…
Growing up in a family of six children, writing was always a way to make myself heard. Even if, for…
I can’t imagine that anyone has conveyed the feeling of nostalgia better than Evelyn Waugh in Brideshead; nostalgia for youth…
Alyson Hallett speaks with Jane Draycott about artistic stones, anonymous creativity and the legacy of a secret affair. Alyson Hallett…
