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I like to sit and read at one of the narrow tables next to the floor-to-ceiling windows on North Front…
“Avoid the use of abstract nouns”, he said, “that’s what’s holding your poetry back”. It was a revelation. Now its…
He stood up and toured the crowded shelves of his study, picking up a book here and a book there.…
Writing a novel feels like being an ultra-marathon runner, it’s going to be a gruelling slog to reach 90,000 words.…
Even though I have some sympathy for the dislocation you must have felt, I want to urge you to hurry.…
Knowing the writer inevitably quickens the pleasure of reading the work. Olga is an unusually complete writer; all she does…
Writing will demoralise you unless you give in to its moral shaping of experience, but nothing will stop you, as…
I am never without a book. It would be tortuous for me to be on a journey, short or long,…
I both know how it works, and don’t know how it works; the best metaphor I can come up with…
“Murder your darlings” doesn’t come from a Calvinist idea that anything that gives pleasure must be sinful; it’s about forcing…
First I get the central character. Then two ideas I thought were completely separate suddenly collide, revealing themselves to be…
The industry is all about minimising risk and so you yourself have to take that risk. Obviously to take big…
