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Category: For Readers

Literary Putdowns

February 10, 2017 Geoff For Readers, For Writers, Fun, Quotes

In America, only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important,[…]

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Stephen Fry vs. Grammar nazis

July 21, 2016 Geoff For Readers, For Writers, Fun

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Dylan Thomas: ‘Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night’

January 28, 2016 Geoff For Readers

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage[…]

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Do you know about Reader View?

January 15, 2016 Geoff For Readers

  I do a lot of reading, from books, e-readers and online, but the latter is my least favourite medium[…]

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Svetlana Alexievich

December 11, 2015 Geoff For Readers

Svetlana Alexievich is an investigative journalist and winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature. She was praised “for her[…]

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Readers and writers have the exact same goal

September 23, 2015 Geoff For Readers, For Writers, Quotes

“Readers and writers have the exact same goal. We want to lose ourselves in story for a few hours. Readers[…]

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Quote: Sylvia Plath

May 21, 2014 Geoff For Readers, Quotes

    You ask me why I spend my life writing? Do I find entertainment? Is it worthwhile? Above all,[…]

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Great Writing: Charles Dickens

November 25, 2013 Geoff For Readers

Mr and Mrs Veneering were brand-new people in a brand-new house in a brand-new quarter of London. Everything about the[…]

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