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Andrew Miller – Why I Write

Illustration by Fran Pulido of two books that look like open books next to a microphone.

If I’d had to sum it up in a word – the motive force behind my writing – I might have said ‘freedom’. That was the feeling. I left home the day I left school, began a new life in a bedsit. I lived on glucose tablets, Saveloy sausages and chips. I wrote stories and poems. I was very happy. If I’d had to sum it up – the motive behind my writing – I might have said ‘freedom’.

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