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Absolutely Revolting
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by Australian Book Review •
December 2015, no. 377

WHY DO YOU WRITE?

Maybe because I can't dance. Maybe because writing involves the Puritan's requisites of pain, frustration, self-loathing, and (guilty) satisfaction.

ARE YOU A VIVID DREAMER?

For sure, my dreams seem to be much more vivid than I am – as far as I can recall.

WHERE ARE YOU HAPPIEST?

In a library; in a book; on a train; at a (horse) race-track.

 


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