Something in a writer's brain needs to watch everything with a detached, amoral eye.
タグ: something, everything, eye, brain

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Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.
タグ: painful, affection, creative, unexpected
Any radical change or trauma always makes for interesting subject matter, but then all stories deal, to some extent, with the disjuncture between past and present.
タグ: always, matter, past, change
I work by hand, with a fountain pen, in bound notebooks I buy in India.
タグ: india, fountain, pen, work
Almost overnight, white people have gone from being very powerful to potentially irrelevant. Their future in South Africa is not what many had envisaged, so it involves a lot of reinvention.
タグ: powerful, white, people, future
Writing is very good for household tasks. Because you'd rather fix a dripping tap or paint an old wall - you'd rather do almost anything than sit and write. I have to reach a point of obsession in order to write, and so I find starting a book incredibly difficult.
タグ: difficult, book, you, good
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