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Paul Abbott

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2007-02-11

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2007-02-11

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1. “You are, and you couldn't not be. I think I learnt to be a more generous person, a more humanistic person through becoming a writer because you have to stand in the other person's shoes. And it's like a psychotic export of yourself. Learning that teaches you how they must feel. It's not psychic or telepathic, but if you don't do it, you can't write well.”

   2007-02-11 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Abbott · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

2. “Well, I think it's the sound of your own voice quite often. What staggers me still, age forty six is that I write things that I realize that my voice is coming back at me. I'm often surprised by things that I see coming back at me that are me and I didn't know I'd put them out for adjudication. It's a really weird thing and I see across five dramas I see things that are common that I didn't know I was doing. It's not cerebral. It's totally emotional and you kind of dig it out your spleen from somewhere when you're writing it apart.”

   2007-02-11 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Abbott · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source