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The three or four pages I’ll be turning as I fall asleep remind me of the individual matchsticks from which…
Reading T. S. Eliot, I saw the images, got caught up in the rhythms with no awareness of separation. As…
As my understanding of the world grew, so my love for a broader spectrum of writing emerged. The tender brutality…
The great gift of myths are the many layers of meaning and understanding they bring, smuggled under the surface. Why…
I took a blanket and the six scripts I was paid to read to the park. I would lie in…
The book I’d rewrite is Tess of the D’Urbervilles. I’d change it so Tess takes the money from Angel Clare…
Zora Neale Hurston left an indelible mark on me as a young journalist. I was inspired by her book Tell…
In the words of William Faulkner ‘Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how…
When I think of reading, I think of enthusiasm, chaos, joy. I think of dropping one book, half-read, on the…
When I think of life-changing literature, I think of writing which didn’t change me at all, but which made me…
Of course I read for enjoyment, escape, information, learning, to walk for a few hours in other landscapes and other…
I studied W. S. Graham’s poem for rhymes, sentence structure, pacing, inversions. It was like an impossible staircase or a…
