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For me a Writing Day was an occasion for self-reproach and panic, a time to lament the passing of the years, stare out of windows and remember that even those famous late starters Joseph Conrad and George Eliot had started by the age I was now.

~Howard Jacobson

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Nationality: British

Born: August 25th, 1942

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