#164: Albert Read, managing director, Condé Nast Britain
Always Take Notes
The Importance of Imagination in Writing
I would urge anyone thinking of writing to only do it if they if they love doing it. I write my books on a laptop but I take all my notes in spiral bound notebooks and I use a pen. In the act of drawing or noting or writing or sketching then that brings the imagination alive. We wanted to come back to the imagination muscle later in our conversation so could we roll back now to your early life? Your father was a novelist and historian your grandfather poet and criticYour family had a background in farming did the arts and the creative industries feel like a place you would naturally end up there? Yes, for a while I think I resisted it for a while until I realised how
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