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Quotes on reading and writing and passages from books I love

Sylvia Plath's 'Letters Home'

Sylvia Plath’s ‘Letters Home’

Posted on April 29, 2016May 2, 2016 by Annabel Smith

This edition of our Writers Ask Writers blog series is in celebration of the launch of two of our members’ new releases, and…

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Stephanie Dowrick: A History of My Reading & Writing

Stephanie Dowrick: A History of My Reading & Writing

Posted on April 5, 2016 by Annabel Smith
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Madeleine Thien on Writers' Block

Madeleine Thien on Writers’ Block

Posted on March 8, 2016March 21, 2016 by Annabel Smith
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Michael Chabon on Writing

Michael Chabon on Writing

Posted on February 9, 2016 by Annabel Smith
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In Other News: Gallivanting

In Other News: Gallivanting

Posted on June 22, 2015June 19, 2015 by Annabel Smith

For the next few weeks I’m going to be gallivanting in the USA with my husband and son, frolicking on Waikiki beach, catching…

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Rick Moody: The Art of Fiction

Rick Moody: The Art of Fiction

Posted on June 18, 2015June 17, 2015 by Annabel Smith

When we first started dating, almost thirteen years ago, my husband bought me a gift subscription to iconic journal The Paris Review, which…

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Posted on September 16, 2013September 3, 2014 by Annabel Smith

You’ve got the wrong idea of what writers do. They don’t understand any more than other people. They invent only plots they can…

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Posted on September 9, 2013January 31, 2014 by Annabel Smith

…How easy it is, like coming home must once have been, for those who’d had homes. Walking through the doorway into the familiar,…

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Posted on September 2, 2013January 31, 2014 by Annabel Smith

There’s the story, then there’s the real story, then there’s the story of how the story came to be told. The there’s what…

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Posted on August 28, 2013February 3, 2014 by Annabel Smith

When they were younger, the exchange of words, of ideas, was important. But later, less so. He believes that the human body has…

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