I'm trying to write a nonfiction book at the moment, slot it in between the novels, and it really is like wading through quicksand compared to writing fiction.
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The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.
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A biographer has to get as emotionally close to hisher subject as possible otherwise the writing won't come to life at all.
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I became quite taken over by Johnson's personality at some points while writing the biography, and since I went straight on to The Closed Circle afterwards, I did sometimes feel I could hear him whispering in my ear while I was working on it.
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