The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes extraordinarily fiction hour
At the outset, my notion of being a writer was that you would have moments of inspiration and moments of frustration, when you'd crumple up your pages and toss them away. On one side, the dustbin would fill up, and on the other side, pages would rise into a novel. Tom Rachman crumpledustbinfill share on social
There are journalists who are drawn to the most extroverted, aggressive jobs because they get an ego high from it. It can be shocking to encounter them and even worse to work with them. Tom Rachman aggressivebadlydraw Change image and share on social
The strength of fiction is not in reading about yourself, but in reading about other people. Tom Rachman fictionpeopleread Change image and share on social
My mom is, for 89 years old, is extraordinarily open-minded. Caitlyn Jenner extraordinarilymindmom Change image and share on social
The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours on end and pretending you're Baudelaire. But it's not a city where you can work. Malcolm Mclaren baudelairebuycafe Change image and share on social
I do read a lot, and I think in recent years the ratio between the amount of non-fiction and fiction has tipped quite considerably. I did read fiction as a teenager as well, mostly because I was forced to read fiction, of course, to go through high school. Daniel Tammet amountconsiderablyfiction share on social