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“When most people doodle they draw stick-men, hearts and stars. I write random words which occasionally accumulate into a half-decent idea for a story”
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“When I was young, I used to tell my family that I hated poetry. Look how that turned out.”
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"Writing is a truly flexible form of expression. It can convey such a diverse range of environments, thoughts, feelings, emotions, events, and worlds. Writing is a weapon towards empowerment; but nobody gets hurt and it is read for pleasure. I write where my inspiration takes me."
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"Poetry reflects a desire to reflect and comment on ourselves, our language and the world around us. This is a just reason for more people to read and write."
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"When I was little I wanted to be a Princess. When I realised how impractical this was, I decided to be a writer."
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"Write things worth reading or do things worth writing."
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"If I knew where poems came from, I'd go there." Michael Longley
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Virginia Woolf once said 'Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.' This is why I write poetry for it brings each small incident to life. It preserves all those moments in text, to be re-read and re-lived when they are almost forgotten.
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"Whenever I got lost writing my novel I just had to stop and have a little look at where I’d been,and suddenly, without really trying I was on my way again. All I had to do was keep going. Unfortunately this is not how it works when I’m driving my car"
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"A poem is its own statement: the most eloquent statement a poet could make would be to remain silent while the poem is speaking, singing."
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