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I try as a writer, to simply get on with the act of writing.

— Joan Hambidge

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If you read widely you cannot avoid the work of other writers permeating your work.

I do think on one level it’s simply unavoidable.

I’m trained as a graphic designer, so in some respects I’m a visual person first. For me, the visual shape a poem assumes on paper is critical to the creative process.

It’s a strange landscape. Polemics, if you could call it that, sometimes verges on the prescriptive, and at other times seems rather conservative.

The threat of violence is pervasive.

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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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