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Notes on Craft
Ho Sok Fong
‘While writing we recover memories, recover moods, and we start to interpret them.’
Tshinanu
Naomi Fontaine
‘Language is a risk that a nation takes. If a language survives, its people do too.’ Translated from the French by David Homel.
Tshinanu
Naomi Fontaine
Plus tard, ils me diront comme tu étais un grand homme. Un savant. Un érudit de la chasse.
El Salvador: An Aide-Mémoire
Carolyn Forché
‘It is my feeling that the twentieth-century human condition demands a poetry of witness.’
Where Does Writing Come From?
Richard Ford
‘Occasionally if pushed or annoyed I'll come right out and say it: I make these little buggers up, that's what. So sue me’.
Between Them
Richard Ford
‘It was my child’s outlook to think most things were right. And yet if life’s eternal drama is of events seeking a more perfect state, their life and mine was not that.’
On Harley-Davidson
Richard Ford
‘Jack Nicholson, I've heard, used to own one. And I understand why.’
The Last Vet
Aminatta Forna
‘Jalloh likes to keep accurate records of such things. After all, nobody else does.’
1979
Aminatta Forna
‘What happened in 1979 has happened many times before and many times since, in places where people have set themselves free and believed with all their hearts that the freedom they had fought for was real and lasting, only to be recaptured.’
Betrayal
Adam Foulds
‘The thrill of this film – and it is thrilling – is seeing that understood and played out by actors of incredible skill.’
Forklift Truck Driver Wins Literary Prize!
Adam Foulds
‘There are two options for the young writer and employment. There is the proper job, whatever it might be – law, advertising, medicine or the default choice for many, academia. Or there’s the menial, rent-paying job.’
Swifts
Adam Foulds
‘Swifts come closer than any other creature to living in the sky and having air and ceaseless movement as their home.’
