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....forthcoming this summer....so chuffed to be included!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/The-London-Reader/dp/B01L7J8P4A

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An idea isn’t a book. The distance between the two can be a long, solitary tundra that is only crossed by actual writing.

HALA ALYAN

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…As long as men are taken seriously when they write about the female half of the world — and women are not taken seriously when writing about ourselves, much less about men and public affairs — the list of Great Authors will be more about power than talent, more about opinion than experience.

Gloria Steinem

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heads gonna roll - jenny lewis // NEW SONG

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Writing novels is hard, and requires vast, unbroken slabs of time. Four quiet hours is a resource that I can put to good use. Two slabs of time, each two hours long, might add up to the same four hours, but are not nearly as productive as an unbroken four. If I know that I am going to be interrupted, I can’t concentrate, and if I suspect that I might be interrupted, I can’t do anything at all. Likewise, several consecutive days with four-hour time-slabs in them give me a stretch of time in which I can write a decent book chapter, but the same number of hours spread across a few weeks, with interruptions in between them, are nearly useless.

Neal Stephenson

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Good Bones  Life is short, though I keep this from my children. Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways, a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways I’ll keep from my children. The world is at least fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative estimate, though I keep this from my children. For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird. For every loved child, a child broken, bagged, sunk in a lake. Life is short and the world is at least half terrible, and for every kind stranger, there is one who would break you, though I keep this from my children. I am trying to sell them the world. Any decent realtor, walking you through a real shithole, chirps on about good bones: This place could be beautiful, right? You could make this place beautiful.

BY MAGGIE SMITH

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Life is pain, Princess. Anyone who tells you different is selling you something.

Dread Pirate Roberts, in "The Princess Bride"