"At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career."

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"At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career."

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"Then you start another book and suddenly the galley proofs of the last one come in and you have to wrench your attention away from what you're writing and try to remember what you were thinking when you wrote the previous one."

Attention

"At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career."

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"It's fun. I sit down every day and tell stories. Some folk would kill to get that chance."

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"I know nothing about producing TV drama and any involvement on my part is liable to prove an obstacle to the producers, so I prefer to be a cheerleader and let them get on with it."

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"One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, but that sort of research is fairly desultory and I like to stick to the book being written - and writing a book concentrates the mind so the research is more productive."

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"I'm fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happily married and to have, on the whole, a fairly clear conscience."

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