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Tobias Hill

British Poet

Born: Mar 30, 1970

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Judgments and secrets are what make a good novel. Tobias Hill

Good Secrets Make Judgments Novel

People have expectations of what you are as a writer. And writers, on the whole, don't like to be classified. Tobias Hill

You People Classified Writer Writers Like Expectations Whole

With a novel, there is no hurrying it. You're constantly walking into the unknown. Tobias Hill

You Unknown Constantly Hurrying Walking Novel

The problem with themes is that writers don't realise they are themes until someone points them out. Tobias Hill

Problem Out Someone Writers Points Until The Problem With Realise Them Themes

As a child, l was fascinated by gemstones in the way that small children are fascinated by dinosaurs or trains. Stones seem very physical and look like sweets. You can look at them microscopically and imagine things about them. Tobias Hill

At school, I was never given a sense that poetry was something flowery or light. It's a complex and controlled way of using language. Rhythms and the music of it are very important. But the difficulty is that poetry makes some kind of claim of honesty. Tobias Hill

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