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Melvin Burgess

What Melvin Burgess thinks about ambition

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English novelist best known for young-adult fiction; author of Junk (Carnegie Medal 1996), Bloodtide, Doing It and the novel Loki.

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  1. Our readingTwo or three hours of writing a day is enough; there is too much else in the world to enjoy to want to be a man of letters.

    Their wordsFrankly, two or three hours a day is enough for me, I’ve never had an ambition to be what used to be called a man of letters - there’s too much else in the world to enjoy.

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