Writers by Fay Godwin

Here are some portraits of writers by the late Fay Godwin. The photographer’s archive, acquired by the British Library contains over 11,000 photographs and letters. The selection here includes this delightful study of Jean Rhys, as well as the young Salman Rushdie, Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Doris Lessing, Tom Stoppard, Angela Carter, Margaret Drabble, Saul [...]



Learning to Write I

Why do you want to do it? It might be the wish to connect with other people on a deep level. The need to speak of inner feelings. It could be the pressure of emotion, which you can’t ignore. What are your own reasons?
Remember the element of play in writing. Build it up and knock [...]






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You cannot, the realist claims, represent people without taking account of the things that people use and acquire in order to define themselves - their tools, their furniture, their accessories. These things are indeed part of the very definition of "character," of who one is and what one claims to be. Peter Brooks

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