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" As an arts journalist in London, working mainly for the BBC, I interviewed hundreds if not thousands of authors. From them I gleaned a great deal of passing instruction in writing and I observed one fascinating detail: no two writers approach their work - physically - in the same way. "
Detail
Work
Writing
" First a piece of Irish wisdom: you should always listen to a bookie. For they have a saying, 'Money tells a good story,' and somewhere in their odds is a kind of science-fiction existentialism that decrees that we, the people, know everything. In other words, betting patterns often make for good, unconscious soothsaying. "
Words
Wisdom
Good
" For a startling period of my life, I reported the Troubles in Ireland for the BBC. I lived in Dublin and was called out to all sorts of incidents that, if taken together, add up to a war - bombings, assassinations, riots, shootings, robberies, jailbreaks, kidnappings, and sieges. "
Up
Life
Lived
" I'd have to struggle to find a subject in which I can't get some kind of interested pulse started. "
Started
Struggle
Find
" If you ever want to understand multitasking in prose, James Joyce is your man. "
Your
Prose
Man
" If you have a book, you have a friend. "
You
Friend
Book
" If you need proof of how the oral relates to the written, consider that many great novelists, including Joyce and Hemingway, never submitted a piece of work without reading it aloud. "
Great
Need
You
" I write - and then I write some more. "
More
Some
Then
" Kitchens are for conversation. They're not just for cooking; they're for conversations. "
Just
Kitchens
Conversation
" Storytelling, in print or speech, needs vital energy. "
Storytelling
Energy
Print
" 'The Great Gatsby,' by F. Scott Fitzgerald, remains the most perfect novel that has ever come out of the United States. Everything in the book moves as it should, in the manner of a piece by Bach or Mozart. "
Perfect
Most
Great
" To understand and reconnect with our stories, the stories of the ancestors, is to build our identities. "
Understand
Ancestors
Build
" We all belong to an ancient identity. Stories are the rivers that take us there. "
Belong
Rivers
Us
" Writers have opinions - that, in part, is why they write. Therefore they have strong likes and dislikes. "
Why
Write
Likes
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