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James Wood
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"Reading this collection felt like looking through a kaleidoscope of colour, gently placing you in different stories, expressing a multitude of emotions. I devoured this and found it hard to put it down.
There’s such a beautiful moment when you read p" Read more of this review » |
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Rachel,
Thanks so much for picking up this collection! I'm so glad Raising Roses meant something to you. It's a tough one, but it's in there for a reaso ...more " |
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"I truly enjoyed this collection. I found myself laughing out loud one moment and then being incredibly moved the next. They feel deeply personal and also very relatable.
One that has particular stuck with me is Raising Roses. I feel deeply connected " Read more of this review » |
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Wow! This means so much to me! Thank you so much, and can't wait to reconnect again. Thanks again for all your kind words.
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"I have three reasons for loving this poetry book.
One is the poetry itself. The book contains a myriad of wit and whimsy, sometimes modern and edgy, other times dreamily echoing the traditional poets of the past. I also love the size of the font. So " Read more of this review » |
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Thanks very much. I'm glad to hear Dumbiedykes will be travelling with you!
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"I really enjoyed this book especially it's diversity.It has the ability to switch from humour to outrage to love and to loss.
The poet uses his life experiences to take you on a journey from the sleepy Suffolk coast to the banks of the Thames and then" Read more of this review » |
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Such a lovely review! Thank you
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“All nature is but art unknown to thee. / All chance, direction which thou canst not see. / All discord, harmony not understood; / All partial evil, universal good. Pope.”
― Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources
― Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources
“We must proceed on the assumption that almost all prose popularly acclaimed as beautiful ('she writes like an angel') is nothing of the sort, that almost every novelist will at some point be baselessly acclaimed for writing 'beautifully' as almost all flowers are at some point acclaimed for smelling nice.”
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“But this will be unceasingly difficult: for the writer has to act as if the available novelistic methods are continuously about to turn into mere convention and so has to try to outwit that inevitable aging. Chekhov's challenge--'Ibsen just doesn't know life. In life it simply isn't like that'--is as radical now as it was a century ago, because forms must continually be broken. The true writer that free servant of life, is one who must always be acting as if life were a category beyond anything the novel had yet grasped; as if life itself were always on the verge of becoming conventional.”
― How Fiction Works [Deckle Edge] Reprint edition
― How Fiction Works [Deckle Edge] Reprint edition
