Helen Sword on Stylish Academic Writing

Quote of the day: “Nothing I’ve ever started out writing is what I’ve ended up writing on any project.”

Last week, Chris Wilkinson’s regular Guardian blog, Noises Off, asked, “When is a new writer not a new writer?”

Quote of the day: “Another legend, Louise Brooks, once wrote a text about Why I Will Never Write My Memoirs in which she acknowledged the importance of the sexual angle.”

Quote of the day: “Lots of actors long to devise their own work, and I loved it and found it satisfying, but eventually I grew frustrated.”