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The next best thing to stopping time is to chronicle it, and then forge its intangibility into a physical object.…
I’m proud of you. It takes guts to be a classical music-loving, poetry-writing, six-foot, teenage lesbian from Burnley. And while…
You begin to not see the page, but to see yourself from across the room, looking blankly at a blank…
Richard Brautigan has a unique way of combining broad comedy with a truly desperate view of the human condition. Richard…
The sweaters with worn-out elbows were on their way out; writers were starting to look fashionable, even sexy. The sweaters…
Thinking, telling, writing began with the ocean of story, between the dusty Northern plains of Delhi and the southern, sultry…
My agent thought the first hundred pages were the best thing I’d ever written, and wanted the rest as soon…
I copied any skill I admired, including knitting and skipping, which worried my father for a while. Then I wrote…
Use words like Impressionists use paint; dab at the scene, use the colours and sensations to fill the reader’s head.…
Once I start writing I stay away from anything similar; the temptation to mimic someone else’s perfect prose is too…
Growing up in a family of six children, writing was always a way to make myself heard. Even if, for…
I can’t imagine that anyone has conveyed the feeling of nostalgia better than Evelyn Waugh in Brideshead; nostalgia for youth…
