Ham&High Lit Fest

Due to the merger between our host the London Jewish Cultural Centre and JW3, there will be no festival this year. See you all in 2016.

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.@TracyAnnO's new radio play explores the story behind #TheGraduate - live read through 29 Jun http://t.co/1Ztm8RiCz4

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.@JW3London casts a #psychoanalytic eye on #NobelPrize winning #SaulBellow on 4 June http://t.co/HdqrKWzUtz

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Join us for a night of live #spokenword with @paulavarjack & @AngrySamPoet on 30 Apr http://t.co/5id7XBobp6 http://t.co/u54aKeIA9Q

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Dubbed "The Jewish Booker", the @JQWingate #LiteraryPrize comes to JW3 on 20 Apr http://t.co/nKUHEMRViH

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“Writing is like life: it goes on.”
― Marty Rubin

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“I must write now and quickly, before I begin to prefer the perfect version that lives in my head.”
― Lettie Prell

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“For all my longer works (i.e. the novels) I write chapter outlines so I can have the pleasure of departing from them later on”
― Garth Nix

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“It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Writing is a mysterious activity.”
― Susan Sontag

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You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough.
― Haruki Murakami

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“I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this.”
― Cormac McCarthy

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“One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?”
― Alain de Botton

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“Write until your fingers break. It may be the cure for everything.”
― Kelly O'Connor McNees

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“You can read until you’re blue in the face, but I’d recommend writing until you’re red in the face. And ass.”
― Jarod Kintz, $3.33

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“I’ve always believed writing ads is the second most profitable form of writing. The first is ransom notes…”
― Phil Dusenberry

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“There is a point at which honesty becomes mischief. That's when your writing becomes irresistible.”
― Daphne Athas

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“That's what I love most about writers--they're such lousy actors.”
― Vincent H. O'Neil, Death Troupe

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“Writers are like supreme beings. We can create worlds in a matter of days and we can destroy them just as fast.”
― Linda Nelson

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“Do you like reading? It's the best thing that can happen to you in life. Writing has other implications.”
― Manuel Rivas

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“Actors are all about entrances, but writers are all about exits.”
― Vincent H. O'Neil, Death Troupe