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'You've got mail!' exclaims the cheery automaton at America Online. The flag on the mailbox icon waves invitingly on my computer screen.... →
I do believe that our modern English usage has become way too clipped and austere. I have been reading excerpts from the journals of 18th-century... →
I loved being away from school. I didn't really fancy school that much when I was little; it wasn't until I was in third or fourth grade that... →
I had this story that had been banging around in my head and I thought, 'I'll just see if there's anything there.' So I wrote a few... →
I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw the printing presses rolling at the Sydney newspaper where my dad worked... →
If screenwriters have to kill off a female character, they love to give her cancer. We've seen so many great actresses go down to the Big C: Ali... →
The structure of 'March' was laid down for me before the first line was written, because my character has to exist within Louisa May... →
When you're writing non-fiction, you go as far as you can go, and then ethically you have to stop. You can't go. You can't suppose. You... →
I was a news reporter for 16 years, seven of them a foreign correspondent in the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. Perhaps the most useful... →
I was a pretty delicate kid. Anything that was going around I'd get it and I'd generally get it much worse than other people, so I spent a... →
I was so shy. I used to cross the street so I wouldn't even have to talk to my relatives, much less strangers. That's not shy, that's... →
I'd gotten myself into a kind of journalism that wasn't really compatible with rearing an infant. I'd been a foreign correspondent for a... →
If you look at an illuminated manuscript, even today, it just blows your mind. For them, without all the clutter and inputs that we have, it must... →