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Unfinished poems, beginnings of stories, ideas for plays, an abandoned novel, pieces for radio which never were aired, articles which…
Lucy Flannery owns up to an obsession with stationery, and Alexandra Benedict shares how she brings the senses into writing.…
A friend was so incensed at being sacked from a daily newspaper that she was inspired to write a bestseller.…
There were no clear routes for becoming a writer. Degrees in creative writing had not yet mushroomed at the universities;…
I was once drowsing through a press brunch at Claridge’s in my days as a consumer journalist, when the late…
Robin Blake revisits four novels he read in his youth. Robin Blake considers four novels he read in his youth…
‘Kill your darlings’ is high on my list of unhelpful comments about writing, almost as bad as Connolly’s dismissive ‘pram…
In many ways, the ‘pram in the hallway’ has not been, for me, ‘a sombre enemy of good art’. Having…
Books written by friends have a special, honoured shelf to themselves. Histories, biographies, novels, memoirs. Some of them write quite…
Lawrence Sail speaks with Ann Morgan about fallow periods, poetry versus description and the sheer power of words. Lawrence Sail…
The stylists, all from northern Italy, would complain about their husbands in their dialect. I spent my early years eavesdropping.…
Working on a book can be gruelling. The feeling that you’re writing into a void can spawn an imagined readership…
