Ann Morgan – My Reading Habits
These days it fills me with joy rather than a kind of dread; I’ve realised that I’ll be reading the…
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Brian Keaney – The Best Advice I Ever Received
I took a page of writing that I felt really good about and put it in a drawer; a week…
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Rukhsana Ahmad – Writers Who Inspire Me
Most of the Victorians I loved have lost their shine too, for me, except George Eliot; her luminous sense of…
Lizzie Collingham – The Best Advice I Ever Received
Ever since, at the age of five, I embarked on my career as a compulsive reader, I have been learning…
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Kevin Clarke – Letter To My Younger Self
You wonder, will this house and this time one day become your 1930s? Existing only in memory? You wonder, will…
Diana Hendry – Why I Write
The compulsion to write is paradoxically both a celebration of life, and a protest at its passing; not that I…
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Nicholas Murray – How I Write
The Aegean pebble on the desk, the mug with the silly legend, the quiver of blunt pencils, the wonky chair,…
Miranda Miller – Writers Who Inspire Me
Virginia Woolf’s fiction explores the inner lives of intelligent women with courage and originality; she searched for, and found, a…
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Elanor Dymott – My Reading Habits
Poetry is a great thing to give a novelist, I think. Very few of the volumes I own are ones…
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Anna Reynolds – The Best Advice I Ever Received
I’m sure it happens to people in other professions too, though.”You don’t want to open him up there, Doc; you…
Ben Musgrave – How Writing Changes The Writer
I almost always default to the Voyage and Return story; is this because this kind of story is a story…
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Shelley Silas – Why I Write
For me, writing real stories or stories based on truth is a more responsible job; it requires skill and authenticity.…