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S5 Ep48: Geoff Dyer, non-fiction writer and novelist

In Writing with Hattie Crisell

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The Un-Unique Relationship Between Research and Writing

"I never feel like research because I've always had a lot of things that I'm interested in finding out about so you know let's suppose let's go way back to the jazz book which came out first of all in 1991Yeah I really found out a lot about jazz because I loved it so much not for a single moment did it ever feel in the process of this finding out that I was researching anything certainly there was no method to it it just felt really it felt much" "Anyone who's got a hobby never feels like they're doing research and I feel I've had a lots of sort of sort of hobbies and interests," he says. 'It feeds so directly into the writing

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