Hilary Mantel and Jane Haynes in conversation. August 29, 2009
Posted by janehaynes in : Becoming..., Writing a book , comments closedCopyright John Haynes 2006: Hilary at home.
This is a conversation between Hilary Mantel and Jane Haynes on: Mind, Memory, Mood and Sleep. July 2009.
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Nothing will come of nothing August 4, 2009
Posted by janehaynes in : Uncategorized , comments closedSince I finished the Proust bit I cannot imagine ever having anything to write about again. I suppose that’s what I love about the mystery of writing, I feel like I am a jackdaw on the look out for something that sparkles. A thief. I talked quite a bit, (it’s all bits and they both died far too young, but one took to his bed – almost from childhood – while the other kept on travelling; even when he was spitting up blood.
BIRTH PANGS OF WRITING A BOOK June 15, 2009
Posted by janehaynes in : Uncategorized, Writing a book , comments closedMy first blog entry is being written on a TGV from Avignon to St Pancras, which is bringing me back to London and not on any account to serve it up to the agent this time until I was certain that I couldn’t go any further on my own. And now I cannot.