Just back from hearing Claire Tomalin give a wonderfully erudite and amusing lecture about Charles Dickens, as part of Bristol's Festival of Ideas. I find it incredibly inspiring to hear writers talking about their work and Tomalin has a breathtakingly encyclopaedic knowledge of her subject, so it felt like a privilege to sit and listen. The evening was enhanced with readings from the novels (written for performance, it seems to me) given by local theatre company Show of Strength. Dickens' capacity to lead his vivid and eclectic life to the full, and Tomalin's capacity to capture and convey it so beguilingly, together make a potent incentive to knuckle down and set to work myself. Too much thinking and not enough doing in the shed at the moment...
What (or who?) inspires you?
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