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Absolutely Revolting
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Open Page with Andrea Goldsmith

by Australian Book Review •
November 2009, no. 316

Why do you write?

For the language, for the ideas, for the pleasures of the imagination, for the unorthodox hours, for the solitude.

Are you a vivid dreamer?

To dream you need to sleep, and sleep, like sport, is not a skill I have mastered.

Where are you happiest?

 


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