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If, at a party, I say I'm a poet, people have a hard time responding, almost as if I'd said I'm a priest.

Alice Oswald. With Hughes and Heaney gone, people are looking around for the best British and Irish poets. Oswald is one of our finest.

My strong suits, coming from poetry, will naturally be description, which I love doing. It comes very easily, and possibly structure, up to a point.

I hate clever-cleverness, but I love good honest cleverness.

Judgments and secrets are what make a good novel.

With a novel, there is no hurrying it. You're constantly walking into the unknown.

The problem with themes is that writers don't realise they are themes until someone points them out.

People have expectations of what you are as a writer. And writers, on the whole, don't like to be classified.