James Meek

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486 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 15 Jun

James Meek’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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I mean, it's just in your head and it's great.

It's fantastic.

It's brilliant.

It's just full of all these wonderful characters and scenes.

And you don't have to tie anything together.

You don't have to worry about this character who's completely incompatible with that character.

You know, all that sort of nonsense.

And, you know, the stage, which luckily I never had to reach with this book, where you start getting your charts out and your diagrams.

But it's all in your head.

It's absolutely, it's the best book that was ever written.

And then comes the day when you write the first sentence.

And as soon as you write those first few words, the whole thing comes crashing down.

And you think, oh, okay, yeah, I see now.

Yeah, all right, okay.

But when I've done that every time in the past,

That first sentence has always been followed by another sentence and then eventually it's been followed by a book.

So I somehow managed to get over myself and finish it.

About writing?

Did I learn something about writing or?

I'm not sure I quite understand the question, but it's always a learning process writing a novel.

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