British - Writer | 1975 -
Grief is a room without doors - but somehow, with its tinsel and cliches, Christmas finds a way in.
Simon Van Booy
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I was living in a large apartment with no furniture, just a typewriter, and because I had nothing else to do with my time, it made me take my writing seriously.
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Everything that we love will, at some point, be taken away from us. If I think about everyone I love eventually being taken away from me by death, or simply by getting lost from each other in the world, it makes me value them much more now.
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If you travel too often, you actually come face-to-face with what you're trying to escape. I feel like when I travel alone, sometimes it's like being locked in a hotel room with my own worst enemy.
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I think anyone can fall in love, if you're open and you're willing, but the real test is sustaining it after all the excitement has worn off.
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When you give something up, you need to fill the space where it used to be, and you understand the landscape in yourself a bit more.
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I was always a writer, by which I mean I was always scribbling away, doing something with pen and paper.
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Both my parents were very supportive of me in whatever I wanted to do.
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When I'm doing something, I do work hard at it.
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Single parenting is sometimes just a case of sitting around by yourself in mild despair, not knowing what to do.
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There are times in life when language fails us, when everything that needs to be said can be expressed only by saying nothing at all.
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I think John Coltrane is one of the great American heroes, like Abraham Lincoln and Emily Dickinson.
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