Ask the Author: Piers Moore Ede
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Piers Moore Ede
While writing Honey and Dust, I visited India - and Varanasi - for the first time. The moment the Kashi Vishwanath Express dropped me off in the Holy City I felt a deep sense that something momentous was happening. The city overwhelmed me, it touched me, it enthralled me. At that time, although it took me a while to realise it, the germ of an idea to write about the city was already forming.
Piers Moore Ede
There's really no good commercial reason to write and, in this digital age, your voice is competing with more that at any time in human history. But if you're supposed to do it, you'll do it because you cannot NOT do it. If that's the case, be absolutely true to your inner compass because, veering away from that will never produce good work.
Piers Moore Ede
In the past I used to see periods of creative difficulty as something to be forced through. Now I see them as a clear indication that there's something else, off the page, that I'm supposed to be attending to. For me, good writing is an act of grace and that can't be willed.
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