Steve Voake – Life-changing Literature
Reading can give you dreams that are so real, so powerful you just want to go out into the world…
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Bethan Roberts – Letter To My Younger Self
Cherish your friends. It seems impossible at the moment but you will make good friends over the next four years…
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Lucinda Hawksley – Life-changing Literature
Now she is able to talk again she has told me that it really got through to her. I will…
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David Stuart Davies – My Reading Habits
Some novels shine with their brilliance, whereas others seem to have arrived on the best-selling list by luck.
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Philippa Stockley – The Best Advice I Ever Received
The sort of dignity that comes from using the smallest word for the job, the right word for the job;…
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Donny O’Rourke – Life-changing Literature
Literature was more life-like that life itself. Between hard covers I began to recognise myself.
John Siddique – Writers Who Inspire Me
For Mary Oliver to have even written the taboo word “loneliness” into a poem seems to me to be one…
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Cherise Saywell – Letter To My Younger Self
There was nothing in those course brochures, or in the careers advice leaflets, about being a writer.
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Joan Lennon – Letter To My Younger Self
The wind blew into our faces from across a forest that stretched away for ever. It was breathtaking and I…
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Jonny Wright – How I Write
What I and most modern-day rappers have taken from The God MC is that multi-syllable rhymes are one of the…
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Cynan Jones – Letter To My Younger Self
I know we can never be together again, that you’ve moved on. But I’d like to ask, for old times’…
Geoff Hattersley – Why I Write
We tried selling the Adventures of Jetman in the school playground, which is when I first learned how indifferent most…