Young Writer Profiles

“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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"I used to want to leave the room with a little dignity. Now I just want to leave the room."
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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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"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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"Literature is finding the stories which lurk between the lines and in the shadows; it’s where the most beautiful if twisted tales take shape."
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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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