S1, Ep2 How to Fail: Sebastian Faulks
How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
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The Benefits of Being a Writer
Being a writer, it was so important to me from the age of about 14 that I found everything else was really getting in the way. But then when I became a journalist in my for later twenties, I enjoyed being a journalist a lot and I quite like the company of other journalists as well. That was kind of really perfect balance. And then since I left journalism in 1991, I had by that time become an editor and it was bending all day in meetings and I never had any time off. Finally, I got this freedom to sit in my cork lined room and write the books,. For the first 10 years, pure heaven. And then the next 10 years, pretty good.
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