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Like her heroines, Rumer Godden refused to be packaged as one kind of writer, and smother her spark. Like her…
Writing can bring fame, fortune, opprobrium, imprisonment, even death or the threat of death, and that would bloody well change…
Neglect your children, lose touch with your friends, live in disorder, get into debt; only when these things happen do…
As the story develops, corridors are re-positioned and walls punctuated by gates that were never there. This helps me to…
Our sitting down side by side, and his joy in reading to me, was ended; guilt then, infests my reading…
A writer doesn’t have to be famous to make you think, and feel, and remember their work. I read George…
Research pitted with fascinating rabbit holes down which I’ll dive because my curiosity has been piqued. Research pitted with fascinating…
Poetry, furnished with ordinary people like bus drivers and sad aunts, and written in a language that was playful, witty…
How it feels when I do it is how I imagine flying would feel to a bird; sometimes just what…
I wanted to find books that were heavy enough to keep me going until my visit the following week and…
Keep going; you’ll always be three months away from ruination and a month away from a game-changer. Jump in the…
I became the Silent One, impossible for teachers to assess; a passive spectator at seminars, hating myself for being unable…
