"I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the sense that we are all, as writers, part of something which is more powerful than any of us."

Reading, Progress, Poems, Poets

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"I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the sense that we are all, as writers, part of something which is more powerful than any of us."

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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."

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"Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"As a reader you recognise that feeling when you're lost in a book? You know the one - when whatever's going on around you seems less real than what you're reading and all you want to do is keep going deeper into the story whether it's about being halfway up a mountain in Brazil in 1823 of in love with a man you aren't sure you can trust or fighting a war in the last human outpost, somewhere beyond the moon. Well, if you're writing that book it's real for you too."

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"The world of books is heavenly paradise."

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"Read good books to improve your life."

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"There is no other enjoyment like reading."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading."

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"I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday."

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"Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face is also a door which opens, I hope, to take the reader deep into the book."

Hope

"I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately."

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"To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation."

History

"As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our teachers, our intimates."

Time

"I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A big bouncy pram with black covers and a hood with metal clips that could trap your fingers. I was looking up at my sister who was sitting on the pram seat, with her back to me."

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"However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition."

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"Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present."

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"I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel at all."

Fact

"I could start with Mandelstam, who was a huge influence on my early writing."

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