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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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My Writing Life: Matthew Barry
"Stop thinking about it, stop procrastinating, just write it."
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My Writing Life: Anna Ellory
"Once you've got a clean sentence, don't mess with it."
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My Writing Life: Hanif Kureishi
"Read, read, read to embed in your creative soul the nature of what a story might be."
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My Writing Life: Gordon Meade
"The most helpful thing someone might have told me before I started my writing career would have been to try and hone my networking skills."
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My Writing Life: Sonia Faleiro
"Writing is not about talent. Writing is about hard work."
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My Writing Life: Simon Okotie
"You have to love writing it for its own sake."
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My Writing Life: Monique Roffey
"Stick with it, you’ll get better."
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