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‘Deborah, the greatest compliment I can pay you is this: if I was a young writer starting out now, I’d be eagerly devouring this book, enormously grateful to you for the wisdom, the useful information, and the stories of heartache and triumph that go to make up The Writing Life.’ — Tessa Duder ‘If you love the work of the authors, if you’re interested in the writing process or as a kind of collected biography of New Zealand society . . . it works on all of those levels.’ — Louise O’Brien, RNZ Nine to Noon ‘I love this book. I love the way it returns me to writing I am familiar  with and lives that I am not. It reminds me that the writing process is addictive, sustaining and for many a necessary joy. It is not a criticism — because I found the interviews I have read immensely satisfying — but at the end of each one I wanted to enter the room and carry on the conversation myself.’ — Paula Green, NZ Poetry Shelf ‘There are so many things to like about this book ... It has a heft which promises a feast of good things and it doesn’t disappoint. The twelve authors are men and women who have written in various genres throughout the years 1959 to 2018, on topics addressing such themes as death and loss, the joy they have found in writing and much more. For aspiring authors there is also advice on writing itself, which, given the depth of talent and length of time these ones have been engaged in their craft, is an invaluable treasure.’ — Lesley Vlietstra, Booksellers NZ blog ‘Deborah Shepard’s The Writing Life is a warm and approachable resource about a time and place in New Zealand writing that exemplifies the beginning of literary diversity and inclusion here. We are shown how a literary art is born both because of and despite adversity, and fed by passion and determination.’ — Tasha Haines, Landfall

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Deborah Shepard is an author, teacher of memoir, oral historian and film and art historian. She has also been a Film, TV and Media Studies lecturer at the University of Auckland. Her major publications include Her Life’s Work: Conversations with Five New Zealand Women (2009), Between the Lives: Partners in Art (2005), Reframing Women: History of New Zealand Film (2000), and Giving Yourself to Life: A Journal of Pain, Hope and Renewal (2015). Deborah teaches introductory and Master classes in memoir and is a life writing mentor for the New Zealand Society of Authors.

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