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Finish the day's writing when you still want to continue.
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Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn't work, throw it away. It's a nice feeling, and you don't want to be…
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A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.
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As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our…
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However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with…
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However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first…
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I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A big bouncy…
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I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately.
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I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There…
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I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the…
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I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write…
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I was always influenced by language.
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Books Are Good For Lots Of Uses, Not For Dropping In The Toilet.
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Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because they have been told that these books…
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
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