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Kate Grenville
Kate Grenville
Australian Author
Born: Oct 14, 1950
Book Love Me Think Writing You
Related authors: Ben Peek Catherine Helen Spence Colleen McCullough Gregory David Roberts Kate Forsyth Liane Moriarty Markus Zusak Zoe Foster Blake
For years I've wanted to write about the Australian countryside, but, like most Australians, I've only got a tourist's knowledge of it. I thought that if I disobeyed that basic rule of writing - write about what you know - I'd write a thin and inauthentic book. Kate Grenville
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I would never write a sentence that didn't have a nice rhythm, or at least I wouldn't leave it to be published like that. It seems to me that prose mustn't be prosaic. Kate Grenville
Me Nice Would Seems Write Never Prose Like Least Leave Rhythm Sentence Published
Each language has its own take on the world. That's why a translation can never be absolutely exact, and therefore, when you enter another language and speak with its speakers, you become a slightly different person; you learn a different sort of world. Kate Grenville
You Speak World Language Become Own Translation Slightly Enter Exact Absolutely Take Never Learn Sort Another Person Different Different Person Speakers Therefore Each Why
I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing. Kate Grenville
Great Writing Great Believer Theory Believer

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