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I have been shut in the cells at the local police station, interviewed a rape counsellor and got lots of…
Writing, for me, is a journey of discovery. I don’t know how to reach my inner brain, my subconscious, without…
One friend recently asked me to name the best five books I’ve ever read; I told him mine, he told…
Before he could see, hear, or smell ‘Fox’, Hughes was aware of something entering the loneliness of his midnight writing…
For no good reason, certainly no reason that I can understand, I still get that weird tingling sensation when I’ve…
If Dylan Thomas introduces you to intoxication, Emily Dickinson shows you how to distill it. A poet who does not…
Perhaps you will become a successful lace-seller, or a designer, or work in fashion, which might well be preferable to…
When I was a smoker I would wake early, make myself a coffee, tuck myself up on the sofa with…
Immersed in domains of magic and adventure, I wondered how these story people tackled the great unknown. What did they…
So much more satisfactory than speech; you can correct it, remould it, hone it ceaselessly, if you like, before you…
You have to be prepared for weeks of footnote-tag, invest heavily in clue following and set off for distant records…
Writing, to you, is an enchanted pool; you hover round the edges admiring the grace of the swimmers, but you…
