English - Journalist | October 6, 1939 -
Few places on earth have been as affectionately alchemised into literature as the Lake District.
Melvyn Bragg
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Control, like curiosity, can be an exterminator.
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I have written favourably in support of subsidy for the arts since the 1960s, and I continue to believe absolutely in subsidy, as I do in the BBC licence fee.
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In an arts programme, my job was to go where the talent was. And the talent was in popular culture.
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Television, above all, is the place where people can see the world they live in, and if the world they live in is a world without the arts, so much the worse for television, and so much the worse for the viewers.
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I love writing, and I love making arts programmes.
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Autobiographical fiction is very tricky.
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A lot of the novels I admire are 'admirably provincial.'
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I actually admire some of the books by a lot of the writers who write magic realism very much, but it's not for me. It's not what I can do, but even if I could, I don't really want to try.
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A lot of the novels that I've really enjoyed in my life, whether it's Tolstoy's 'Cossacks,' or 'Sons and Lovers' or 'Jude the Obscure' or 'David Copperfield' or 'Herzog,' have an autobiographical spine.
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Writers are looking for a story. Using your own life as the basis for a story gives it an association with reality that's a wonderful starting point.
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More people go to Tate Modern than watch the Arsenal.
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