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August 25, 2009

McEwan on suspense

I found an interview with the fabulous British fiction writer, Ian McEwan, in the New Yorker. He’s one of my very favourite writers, so I was excited to find the following extract on the subject – and to see that he also believes that suspense stems from withholding information, rather than giving too much.

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June 19, 2009

Why do we write?

Why do we write? This is a complex question with no easy answers. Do we enjoy it?
Colm Toibin says he doesn’t like it very much. AL Kennedy and Amit Chaudhuri both admitted to decidedly mixed feelings on the subject, in a piece in The Guardian UK.
According to Kennedy: “The joy of writing for a living [...]

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