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Given that he was writing in the late eighteenth century, I like to cut him slack.

— Ben Aaronovitch Rivers of London (2011)

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Like young men from the dawn of time, I decided to choose the risk of death over certain humiliation.

Whispers Under Ground (2012)

Anyone who’s taken statements from multiple witnesses to the same event will know how malleable memory is.

Lies Sleeping (2018)

Nothing attracts the powerful quite like more power.

Lies Sleeping (2018)

There’s nothing like having your girlfriend talk in geological time to make you feel insignificant.

The Hanging Tree (2016)

I wondered, not for the first time, whether all farmers become obsessed or if only obsessive people become farmers.

Tales from the Folly (2020)

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

Strength of creative writing lies in the skill of handling words and articulating artistic expression of feelings.”

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The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

Robert Benchley

Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.

William Wordsworth Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

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