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The worst is when you can’t think where to go in your writing, and an idea won’t get written.

— Helen Beaglehole

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I read a tremendous amount. But I also ride a mountain bike round the Wellington hills and on bike tours, and sail and tramp.

I really like learning, and I liked learning when I was small. I guess I was one of those model pupils - except in one subject - see below.

Write! (See the first sentence above - ‘best and worst thing about being a writer’)

I don’t think I have one - I like a lot, and we cook a lot with Asian spices like lemon grass and fish sauce.

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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.”

Suman Pokhrel

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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