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John Greening – The Writer As Outsider

Agatha Christie, for example, was so shy she would retreat from a party even as she stood at the door.…
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John Greening – Dreams And The Writer

My dreams are often literary, occasionally disturbingly so, like that vivid encounter I had with R. S. Thomas before I…
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John Greening – Inspiration

I’ll resort to tea, but anything stronger would make things much worse. The likes of John Berryman or Dylan Thomas…
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John Greening – Why I Write

If you have to ask yourself why you write, then you probably shouldn’t be doing it. In my experience the…
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John Greening – How I Write

The blank page can be unnerving to a novelist preparing for the day’s long trek, but it’s a wasteland that…
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John Greening – Letter To My Younger Self

True, your diaries tend to trail off around March after your birthday presents, but what about those days you sat…
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John Greening – How Writing Changes The Writer

Writing poetry is about tuning in; language is the necessary crystal. Find the wavelength and everything connects with everything.
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John Greening – The Best Advice I Ever Received

Ted Hughes went on to stress how important it was to keep my creative energies at top pressure by living…
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John Greening – Writers Who Inspire Me

There are poets I love but will hesitate to read if I am in the middle of writing a poem…
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John Greening – Writer’s Block

Perhaps your subject went away; the war ended; you moved from your special place; the poet of youth grew old.…
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John Greening – Letter To My Readers

Think of yourself as a baby dropped in a swimming pool. You won’t drown, and… may even find you’re enjoying…
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John Greening – The Perfect Place To Write

Cambridgeshire, or what I still think of as ‘Huntingdonshire’, has become the perfect place for me to write in. We…
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