Shyama Perera – The Best Advice I Ever Received
To me it was heaven; I was full of beans as only a teenager can be, ready to start my…
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To me it was heaven; I was full of beans as only a teenager can be, ready to start my…
If I am right at the beginning of a novel I will have written down an idea that came to…
Claim your own space. Never be afraid to step out into unknown territory, armed only with words; they will serve…
Whenever I need to be reminded of why I love poetry, I turn to Jack Gilbert. He holds me back…
If I see something amazing I get filled with self-doubt, thinking I myself will never be able to reach the…
If I there is a guiding principle behind my reading — let’s call it a ‘tendency’ — it’s the idea…
He is fearful and hopeless, shabby and disreputable-looking; even his eventual martyrdom is squalid and he fluffs his final words.…
You didn’t know that the same shifts in history writing which meant that Unstead could write history for children largely…
I stopped worrying about the book I had written and started thinking about the book I wanted to write; instead…
I sat there listening to my words echoing round the room, embarrassed to be the centre of attention, but secretly…
I once witnessed the upper deck of a London bus fall silent in a collective attempt to follow the progress…
I learned about waypoints, sky countries, meteoro-glyphs, flying by instruments only, and whiteouts; it’s not just a book about flying…