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Writing fiction is telling the deepest truth you know through otherness.

— Michael Cawood Green

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Travelling is the very nature of fiction.

I only know that when one is writing truly creatively, one works in images, not ideas.

I am fascinated by, and have written on, literal and cultural translation.

In essence fiction is about the challenge of otherness.

A comma is a political act, in certain circumstances.

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Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
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William Wordsworth Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

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