- 15:53
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Then I
had the thought, why don’t you write what you want to read?
- 16:46
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I’ve noticed a strange behaviour
in myself recently. It’s something I don’t entirely understand, but I thought
if I come clean and tell you all about it, then it’ll be a way of processing it
myself, and you might offer some insight into this oddness.
- 14:46
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I talk about books a lot. The
book industry is filled with ‘talking about books’. It’s not unexpected; it’s
not at all unwarranted. It’s even required by my job. I have to tell
booksellers about new titles all day, every day. But I have started noticing
the differences in the way we talk about books. What we feel is important to
impart has become interesting. When my friends and/or booksellers reverse the
roles and start telling me about what they’ve been reading, it has made me take
note of the way I describe books to people.
- 13:38
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- 21:33
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Sometimes there are choices, changes
and chances that present themselves to us which affect us in more ways than we
could have foreseen when we take them up. One of these happened to Bryan and I
just over two years ago. My work offered to move us to Melbourne for me to take
on the same role I had previously on a slightly larger scale. Moving interstate
hadn’t been at the forefront of our minds, but it was a free ride, and I hadn’t
lived anywhere other than Terrigal (where I grew up) and Sydney. So we went for
it. And I’ve noticed things change in ways that I didn’t expect.
- 15:43
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A
common question pitched at writers is “When did you know you wanted to be an
author?” and more often than not, the answer is some variation of “Always! I
wrote my way out of the womb.” Or, “My mother published a literary journal of
my work on the home computer when I was four.” Or, “I’ve done nothing but write
as far back as I can remember, I never even watched a single TV show because I
was too busy writing.”
- 08:19
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