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Anne Tyler is the person who first made me want to write: I picked up Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant in a bookshop, started to read it there and then, bought it, took it home, finished it, and suddenly I had an ambition, for about the first time in my life.
Nick Hornby in Housekeeping vs. The Dirt, giving me yet another book I hope to find time to read and cementing my fear that I’ll become a needle-tracked junkie if someone devises a way to cook literature on a spoon and draw it up into a syringe. Stay in school, kids.
