Simone de Beauvoir – The Ethics of Ambiguity
The Poems of Norman McCaig
Toni Morrison – Beloved
Richard Holloway – Godless Morality
Margaret Atwood – Cat’s Eye
Michael Ondaatje – In the Skin of a Lion
Joyce Carol Oates – We Were the Mulvaneys
Germaine Greer – The Boy
Milan Kundera – The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Robert M Prisig – Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
John Irving – The World According to Garp
Olive Schreiner – The Story of an African Farm
THE TOP-TEN THINGS LISA BALLANTYNE HAS LEARNED ABOUT WRITING A NOVEL:
1) Write if you feel driven to, then you will always find it satisfying.
2) Once it’s written, it exists – don’t think too much, write it down. It is easier to revise a finished piece of work.
3) A writer writes.
4) Spend time perfecting your work, but show your work to others.
5) Read, read, read.
6) Research is for background and for confidence. You don’t have to squeeze it all in.
7) Live life, or you won’t have anything to write about.
8) Write about what interests you, then it is more likely others will be interested.
9) Exercise before sitting down to write.
10) Delete as little as possible and keep all your drafts.
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