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In-depth conversations with fascinating, intelligent people -- writers mostly, because: fascinating, intelligent.

'Personally I don’t care why something turns me on. I don’t want to have to apologise for my own desires. For women, there's a huge freedom in owning…
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"What's interesting I think is I've always been this person, with this voice, and the way people react to me when I speak has never changed. They either…
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Full audio version of my conversation with the London-based painter Nadine TalallaListen now (47 min) | 'I paint women because I'm searching for myself. And actually I think it's what all women do with imagery of our sex: We search…
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'Personally I don’t care why something turns me on. I don’t want to have to apologise for my own desires. For women, there's a huge freedom in owning…
Leah McLaren
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"What's interesting I think is I've always been this person, with this voice, and the way people react to me when I speak has never changed. They either…
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"I really had no idea how much people would care about my age. It’s the last thing that matters in writing. What does matter is working at the craft."
'You have to understand your motivation for writing your story. If it's for sheer entertainment value, don't do it. If it's for revenge never do it…
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'I honestly consider myself very lazy or at least very reluctant to do anything I don’t feel like doing, but I have often felt like writing…
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'You pin people to the page like a butterfly... there's a ruthlessness to writing you just can't get around.'
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