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Open Page with Peter Goldsworthy

Open Page with Peter Goldsworthy

by Australian Book Review •
December 2009–January 2010, no. 317

Why do you write?

To find out what I know, to remember what I can, and to make sense of it all – but also to make nice patterns; to get less ignorant if not adequately wiser; and because, like all obsessives, I get morose if I don’t.

 


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