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What is it that motivates a person to sit in solitude filling blank pages with words? Does an author write to change the world, to make money or simply because of a love of language? Nigel Forde explores the novelist's mind with the help of contemporary writers including Paul Auster , Susan Hill and David Lodge.
Producer Sally Marmion

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Nigel Forde
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Paul Auster
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Susan Hill
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David Lodge.
Producer:
Sally Marmion
Source: Radio Times

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