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Philip Caveney – Why I Write
My version culminated in Attila and the Pope having a duel to the death outside the gates of Rome; as…
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David Spencer – Why I Write
You’re a man now lad, you’ve got to be strong for your mother. So that’s what I did. I stood…
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Katie Grant – Why I Write
Except for the supremely confident, the arrogant and the self-deluded, writing is an unsatisfactory occupation of wickedly high highs and…
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Annie Caulfield – Why I Write
As I sulked around chilly convent corridors, I imagined that a writing life would be all late rising and escaping…
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Alyson Hallett – Why I Write
It’s a messy process too. Full of delight and verve and sparkle, as well as failure, submission, defeat.
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Christopher Wakling – Why I Write
I hunched over my desk and read photocopies of novels; the photocopies passing for law reports.
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James McConnachie – Why I Write
I write non-fiction now. I reckon it’s still the best way to affect what other people think, to add to…
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Gavin Weightman – Why I Write
Sometimes it’s exciting, and I wish the British Library had a room where you could roar with delight when an…
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Mick Jackson – Why I Write
One way or another I’ve always contrived to do some writing; it’s become a habit.
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Jim Kelly – Why I Write
A shy child, I particularly liked the idea that your fame was concentrated in those letters on the cover. You…
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Paul Sayer – Why I Write
In those days only one in a thousand aspiring authors ever actually made it into print, and I felt I…
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Sally Pomme Clayton – Why I Write
To meet Venus; to disobey; to step inside the doll’s house; to row across the river Styx; to find a…