How Writers Write interview (1987)

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The following "interview" is from How Writers Write by Pamela Lloyd, which you can read here on Internet Archive, featuring children's writers of various genres. Rather than a straightforward collection of interviews, the book groups their responses into themed chapters – so you'll have brief remarks from a dozen authors on some aspect of writing. I've collected Sutcliff's answers here, with the chapter titles standing in for the "questions." The page references (21-2, 49, 64-5, 67-8, 84, 103-4, 131, 142) are to the linked US edition.

If you've been reading along with her essays and interviews, you may recognise a lot of her observations and examples here! Let us say that a fondness for revisiting her themes is characteristic of her non-fiction as well as her fiction.

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