To help overcome writer’s block and start writing the first sentences of A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway is said to have reminded himself: “Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
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In May 1992, the local literary news was full of Tim Winton’s success and his novel, Cloudstreet. I thought it an omen. Winton was thirty-one-years-old, and I was thirty. He’d grown up in W.A., and so had I. He’d just won his second Miles Franklin Award, and I was having a second crack at being a writer!
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There were old tea chests in a spare room at my grandparents’ house, from which my younger brother and I unearthed 78 RPM records, 1940s Film Fun Annuals and Biggles books that had belonged to my father and uncle as boys. But the greatest treasure for this boy was a mint copy of The Gorilla Hunters.
Read MoreI look forward to the Writer's Centre's monthly Furious Fiction competitions because I've become addicted to the escapism of writing short stories! ~ Robert Fairhead
This slim book is hard to put down. And the only regret we may feel after reading it is that we reached the end too quickly! ~ Denise O'Hagan
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. ~ Maya Angelou
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