Chris Westwood – How Writing Changes The Writer
I’m avoiding the thousand yard stare of the blank page; I’m afraid of it. This is how it is before…
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Philippa Stockley – Writers Who Inspire Me
Wharton’s own life, so comfortable that she secretly bailed out Henry James in his old age. He never knew. I’ve…
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Caitlin Davies – Why I Write
Many times I’ve said I’ve had I enough, I’m getting a real job; I can’t take the uncertainty anymore. Then…
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Amanda Swift – My Reading Habits
We don’t have a name but we do have a reputation among local book groups as the most badly behaved.…
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Julian Evans – The Best Advice I Ever Received
New Guinea is not at all a childish dream; West Papua is not at all a childish dream. It is…
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Robyn Bolam – Writers Who Inspire Me
When I first heard a poet read, in a chemistry laboratory at Newcastle University, he was Ted Hughes; his gruff…
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Lisa Evans – The Best Advice I Ever Received
At sixteen, they took me to the National where I fell in love with Rosencrantz, totally unaware that also on…
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Jonny Wright – My Reading Habits
Newspaper stories act as one of my biggest writing inspirations. I’ve often come across a random story which gets my…
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Amanda Mitchison – Why I Write
Whenever anything awful happened somewhere in the world, I would be sent there: fly out Wednesday; file the copy Friday,…
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Brian Keaney – Letter To My Younger Self
Getting angry is bad for you. Incidentally, getting angry with editors is more than just bad, it’s stupid; they always…
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Lizzie Collingham – How I Write
I can’t move on to the body of the text until I’ve written a satisfactory beginning, and to get this…
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Maria McCann – My Reading Habits
There’s a Library Shelf in the living room where all the through-traffic is stored; library books, obviously, plus books borrowed…