S17, Ep6 Diana Evans: the bestselling author on writing routines, dealing with her inner critic and living life to the fullest
How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
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Tolstoy: A House for Alice
A house for Alice does recall those sort of 19th century novels where there's this panoramic sweep of what is happening in wider society and then the personal stories set against that. I feel like with this book I did want a larger canvas and I wanted this big host of characters and I wanted it to be more expansive, so I feel like I achieved that but I feel like there's something that I haven't achieved. It's something that requires kind of going back to the grindstone and really studying, spending lots of time reading and just trying ideas,. taking risks with ideas and trying to work in another form. And are you that kind of person that when you feel you have acquired
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