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They’d WhatsApp discussion topics and circulate e-petitions; they’d form online groups and spend their lives and energy having to defeat…
I wrote before I could write. Notebooks filled with lines of scribble and illustrations to represent the stories I knew…
I love researching and I sometimes wonder if I choose a subject for a novel so I can read about…
Observing and imagining so intensely gives writers an infinitely absorbing mental life which can isolate us from others. Observing and…
You want to know the most amazing thing? Those two, up on your bedroom wall, Donny and Starsky, one day…
Reading is an adventure, a glorious freedom. Follow your instincts, enjoy yourself; don’t worry about those gaps. Reading is an…
Alice Walker’s generosity in celebrating what had come before, what had ignited her, opened up a world for readers. Alice…
Great writers… write how they want. If they want to tell without showing, they do. Read Henry James if you…
I should also mention Stan Lee. Spiderman caught criminals and saved lives but had trouble getting a girlfriend. I should…
iIt’s also odd that the level of detail about one particular swimmer didn’t raise a flag, but how would an…
One moment I was looking at the huge, empty, stone sarcophagus, its heavy lid propped open with rocks; the next,…
In my fifties I led an expedition round Spitsbergen, home of the Snow Queen; life returning to fairy tales. I…
