Tania Hershman – Letter To My Younger Self
Trying to please is like trying to paint your raft a colour that someone on shore you haven’t met yet…
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Brian McCabe – The Classic Book I’d Like To Re-write
I could really identify with Billy’s feelings of being stifled and trapped by his environment and his family, and the…
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Jennifer Potter – How I Write
My starting point for the Jamestown book was a manuscript list of nearly sixty women sent over to Virginia, which…
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John Greening – Writer’s Block
Perhaps your subject went away; the war ended; you moved from your special place; the poet of youth grew old.…
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Deborah Gearing – The Best Advice I Ever Received
One word after another, writing is walking; the journey completes itself. One word after another, writing is walking; the journey…
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Sally Cline – How Writing Changes The Writer
Should I give way to this common feeling that artists should contribute something to society; that is, in addition to…
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Lucy Jago – My Reading Habits
My natural habitat is a book-lined room, so a habit can be something in which we swathe ourselves, symbolic and…
Mark Illis – Letter To My Younger Self
You love Star Trek and Star Wars, because those things are like someone has gone into a laboratory and created…
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Nicholas Murray – Marketing And Me
Selling books is as necessary as writing them but many writers, and I am one of them, have a love-hate…
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Jonny Wright – The Classic Book I’d Like To Re-write
My version of Animal Farm would look at how the slave revolt works itself out; it would explore ideas of…
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Maria McCann – Life-changing Literature
Each time I return to Middlemarch l find it has changed; on first reading it was the story of Dorothea,…
Nicola Baldwin – My Reading Habits
At awards season, scripts of newly-released films find their way online as studios and agents quietly upload PDFs of screenplays…