'If I say I can't imagine you, and I've never tried to, please don't take it the wrong way; it's just that when I write it feels as if I'm speaking to myself.'

If I say I can't imagine you, and I've never tried to, please don't take it the wrong way; it's not arrogance, it's just that when I write it feels as if I'm speaking to myself.

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'Maybe, at some point, people will be given implants that will allow words and images to be sent directly to the brain, but I have no doubt there will still be writers.'

Maybe, at some point, people will be given implants that will allow words and images to be sent directly to the brain, but I have no doubt there will still be writers conjuring up the characters and knocking the plotlines into shape.

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'By reading you learn about pacing, plotting, character and style and you learn what makes a book memorable.'

Without even realising it, by reading you learn about pacing, plotting, character and style and you learn what makes a book memorable.

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'You believe that 'C' is The End, and that means you're staying put when all you want is to go.'

You believe that 'C' is The End, and that means you're staying put when all you want is to go, to leave the moor, to start your future; and now something worse is working into your thoughts.

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'I didn't know how to make sense of losing her. Writing became a place of refuge. '

I didn't know how to make sense of losing her. Writing became a place of refuge. Poetry was how my thoughts first spilled out of me; I wrote my first book of poetry at the age of eleven.

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'We all have our own "spots of time" as Wordsworth defines them, intensely felt moments at the imaginative and emotional peaks and troughs in our lives.'

We all have our own "spots of time" as Wordsworth defines them, intensely felt moments at the imaginative and emotional peaks and troughs in our lives; writing our own Prelude could make us aware.

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'Avoiding eye contact with the writing tools; laptop screen, pen, notebook, backs of envelopes, seething with undecipherable scribbles.'

A swift shutdown of avoiding eye contact with the writing tools; laptop screen, pen, notebook, backs of envelopes seething with undecipherable scribbles of the next ten concepts.

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'Write about what you don't know. If you are setting out to write a novel, you are in it for the long haul. You better be sure you'll stay interested.'

Write about what you don't know. If you are setting out to write a novel, you are in it for the long haul. You better be sure you'll stay interested in something for the next three years.

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'Research is like foraging; you enter a forest looking for one ingredient and end up with several you had no intention of finding.'

Research is like foraging; you enter a forest looking for one ingredient and end up with several you had no intention of finding. It's one of my favourite parts of writing.

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'It's not so much individual works of literature that transform, as Literature itself; the great smorgasbord of these vividly imagined worlds.'

It's not so much individual works of literature that transform, as Literature itself; the great smorgasbord of these vividly imagined, precisely delineated worlds, the astonishing was a book can hold you.

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