'Life is a constant rearrangement of priorities, and sometimes we need to remember that writing — though a compulsion we love — is just one of them. '

There’s something wonderful about writing when there’s snow. It deadens sound and blankets everything with clean lines. There’s something wonderful…

There's something wonderful about writing when there's snow. It deadens sound and blankets everything with clean lines. There's something wonderful about writing when there's snow. It deadens sound and blankets everything with clean lines. It clears out the mind and makes the world a hushed, waiting space to fill with words.

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'There's something wonderful about writing when there's snow. It deadens sound and blankets everything with clean lines.'

Writers must cast aside whichever exciting project they are now working on to go back in time, just as the…

Writers must cast aside whichever exciting project they are now working on to go back in time, just as the reader is taking the book forward into their lives. Writers must cast aside whichever exciting project they are now working on to go back in time, just as the reader is taking the book forward into their lives. Pity the poor writer who struggles to remember why they wrote the book in the first place.

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'Writers must cast aside whichever exciting project they are now working on to go back in time, just as the reader is taking the book forward into their lives. '

Knowing your own best work rhythms will save you both from making excuses, and from expecting too much of yourself…

Knowing your own best work rhythms will save you both from making excuses, and from expecting too much of yourself at the wrong moment. Knowing your own best work rhythms will save you both from making excuses, and from expecting too much of yourself at the wrong moment. You will learn to identify quite distinct phases; when you are on song as opposed to merely competent.

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'Knowing your own best work rhythms will save you both from making excuses, and from expecting too much of yourself at the wrong moment. '

What genre would Shakespeare be? His works contain horror, history, myth, fantasy, ghosts, crime. Dickens, too. What genre would Shakespeare…

What genre would Shakespeare be? His works contain horror, history, myth, fantasy, ghosts, crime. Dickens, too. What genre would Shakespeare be? His works contain horror, history, myth, fantasy, ghosts, crime. Dickens, too. I always have a Dickens on the go, and dip in just as I would a giant bag of pick and mix. I want a novel to have it all; why not?

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'What genre would Shakespeare be? His works contain horror, history, myth, fantasy, ghosts, crime. Dickens, too.'

I stopped to smoke a cigarette, talking aloud to myself in a near-fury that I had a commission waiting for…

I stopped to smoke a cigarette, talking aloud to myself in a near-fury that I had a commission waiting for me and no pitch to make. I stopped to smoke a cigarette, talking aloud to myself in a near-fury that I had a commission waiting for me and no pitch to make, nothing to inspire the officer that she had done the right thing awarding money to a man who'd never written a play.

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