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My Writing Life: Annie Siddons
"If you desire stability, holidays, nice stuff, and not being poleaxed by anxiety, choose another career."
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My Writing Life: Alex Wong
"There are no practical revelations I wish I’d had earlier. I only wish I’d been able to save myself some worry."
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My Writing Life: Emily Rhodes
"Writing is fun but re-writing is torture."
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My Writing Life: John Siddique
"It’s vital to write so clearly that the reader feels they’ve lived it themselves."
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My Writing Life: Cerrie Burnell
"Resilience is more important than talent alone."
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My Writing Life: Eric Ngalle Charles
"The best advice I ever received about my writing? - 'Eric, this is crap.'"
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My Writing Life: Julian Barnes
"Re-reading is often more valuable to a writer than keeping up with the latest book of the month."
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My Writing Life: Rebecca Colby
"Do not become daunted by the enormity of writing a book."
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My Writing Life: Lee Child
"Bad pages can be fixed, but no pages can't be."
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My Writing Life: Lucy Hughes-Hallett
"You need to have a mind full of words and sentence structures and narrative devices."
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My Writing Life: Jack Thorne
"Write the impossible." Playwright and screenwriter Jack Thorne.
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My Writing Life: Fraser Harrison
"Stamina is really important. And if you haven't got it, then you're going to starve."
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