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Simon Mawer
Simon Mawer
British Author
Born: 1948
About Life Most Think Writing You
Related authors: Dorothy L. Sayers George Eliot George Orwell Ian Fleming James Allen Marcus Buckingham Neil Gaiman Virginia Woolf
I was a boarding school product from the age of eight, and I hated it. Though I do have a theory that boarding school is good training for writers because it's so desperately lacking in privacy: you make space for yourself by having an interior life. Simon Mawer
Life Good You Privacy Age Yourself Training Interior School Space Desperately Though Hated Having Writers Make Because Lacking Eight Boarding Boarding School Product Theory
Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers. Simon Mawer
People Types Saw Those Most Became Managers Bank Literary Themselves Who University
One of the reasons I wrote 'The Fall' is that climbing's more than a sport, it's a way of life. When you're in it, it's all you think about. Simon Mawer
Life You Fall Think Way About More Wrote Sport Climbing Than Reasons
I find it very easy to be alone. I'm a writer, for heaven's sakes! Simon Mawer
Alone Easy Find Writer Very Heaven
When writing fiction, you only have to know enough to be convincing on the page. I mean really convincing, of course - but you don't need academic depth. Simon Mawer
You Writing Enough Only Academic Know Course Fiction Mean Depth Really Convincing Page Need
Pundits always have something to write about; the novelist just has a blank screen. Simon Mawer
Pundits About Something Blank Write Always Just Screen Novelist
Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome. Simon Mawer
Sometimes Think Syndrome Perpetual Childhood Novelists Suffer

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