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Lynne Truss
English
Writer
Born:
May 31
,
1955
Am
Life
Me
People
World
You
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Texting is a fundamentally sneaky form of communication, which we should despise, but it is such a boon we don't care. We are all sneaks now.
Lynne Truss
Communication
Care
Despise
Boon
Texting
Sneaky
Form
Which
Should
Now
Fundamentally
Writers and painters alike are in the business of consulting their own imaginations, and stimulating the imaginations of others. Together, and separately, they celebrate the absolute mystery of otherness.
Lynne Truss
Business
Together
Celebrate
Own
Others
Alike
Absolute
Mystery
Consulting
Writers
Stimulating
Separately
Painters
Imaginations
As with email, the recipient of a texted question seems to have the option to ignore it, while nevertheless saying, 'Hello, lovely day,' and so on.
Lynne Truss
Saying
Day
Recipient
Email
Seems
Nevertheless
Question
Option
Lovely
While
Hello
Ignore
One of the things that all authors of fiction must learn to judge is whether - and in what detail - to describe the face of a character.
Lynne Truss
Character
Judge
Face
One Of The Things
Must
Detail
Learn
Authors
Fiction
Whether
Describe
Things
After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor.
Lynne Truss
Job
Got
Editor
Years
Literary
After
University
What I have always liked about Brighton is its impersonality. Since the 18th century, people have come, used the place and gone home again.
Lynne Truss
Home
People
Gone
About
Since
Come
Liked
Always
Place
Again
Century
Used
Brighton
I am not against marriage. I lived with someone for 11 years. But we weren't in love, and I thought that was quite important.
Lynne Truss
Love
Marriage
Thought
Important
Someone
Am
Were
Years
Quite
Against
Lived
Do you lend books and DVDs to people? If so, don't you always regret it? All my life I have forced books on to people who have subsequently forgotten all about it. Meanwhile, on my shelves sit many orphaned books loaned to me over the years by trusting, innocent souls - some as long ago as the Seventies.
Lynne Truss
Life
Me
You
People
Regret
Innocent
My Life
Long
Sit
Books
Seventies
All My Life
Some
About
Over
Forced
Always
Souls
Shelves
Years
Trusting
Subsequently
Forgotten
Lend
Meanwhile
Who
Many
Orphaned
Loaned
All writers learn this, in time: don't show your work to other people until it's safely finished. Even discussing your unborn book in quite general terms can be such an undermining experience that, afterwards, you give it up and go to live in Guatemala.
Lynne Truss
Work
Time
You
Experience
Book
People
Finished
Live
Other
All Writers
Unborn
Give
General
Writers
Until
Terms
Safely
Learn
Undermining
Go
Up
Discussing
Quite
Afterwards
Your
Show
Even
What one discovers in life, I find, is that one's personality defects don't come and go.
Lynne Truss
Life
Personality
Find
Come
Come And Go
Go
Discovers
Defects
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