Charles Jennings – How I Write
Am I actually going to get out of bed and start work? Of course not, and yet I can’t stop…
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Am I actually going to get out of bed and start work? Of course not, and yet I can’t stop…
As a child some of my happiest memories are of pretending to be ill, climbing into my parents’ empty bed…
I have to be careful, he continued, turning to me with a smile, for I dabble in poisons a good…
It is irresponsible, his work seems to suggest, for the lyric poet to ignore what distracts him.
It’s not just Nesbit’s books that inspire me, she was also a neighbour. She lived just down the road from…
The problem when you start writing seriously is that no one can really tell you how to do it.
In that shed I wrote like the wind, hitting my thousand words by midday so that I could get out…
Some people teach with harshness, but she preferred to teach with love. I try to remember to treat myself the…
My rigid writing routines are based on the belief that the repetition of rituals itself is crucial to the writing…
I don’t know how many elements of Kwei-Armah’s real life this play had in, but it made me think I…
For me, the act of writing can be transformative; as a children’s writer I’m suddenly allowed to imagine that postboxes…
I still borrow books from the library but I have fulfilled a childhood wish: I have shelves stuffed with books…