“The great underestimated source of knowledge for writers is school: Latin American history, vertebrate biology, that kind of thing. In school I studied nearly everything except writing, with degrees in science … I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I’d written. I still do… I’m enough of a biologist to know that whatever comes in will, in some form, come back out.”
This comes from the excellent 'About Writing' section on, American novelist, Barbara Kingsolver's website.
It's worth looking at what else last year's Orange Prize winner has to say - wise words.
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