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This fundamental change in the way books are published gives both author and reader far more influence in the industry.…
George MacDonald Fraser’s phrasing and structure are so fluid and smooth that reading his sentences always makes me feel happy.…
I was not lacking ideas, rather I woke to find that I had lost the ability to express them. I…
In my version of Brideshead Revisited Cordelia would be the narrator, not Charles; he would be seen for what he…
The writers who inspire me are the writers who know its the writing that matters, not the writer. The writers…
I had to throw off the shadows of Samuel Johnson’s perfection before I could write. But they have not left…
That unknowability of others is a central theme of my writing; the desire to overcome that hurdle within, and through,…
Buying books to sell at readings, buying more to send out as extra review copies; attending unlikely events in the…
With climbing, as with writing, the serious lows come with serious highs. Early the next morning we gained a ridge…
It was when this long apprenticeship began to expose me to things that felt compelling that I truly began to…
One memorable piece of advice came from a dream in which I found myself in a forest at night, watching…
I’d be focussed when I wrote. I’d stop being self conscious. I wrote to make myself present and at the…
