Lily Brett

Yes, it was my entree to the world of writing.

If I hadn't got the job at GoSet, I never would have known I could write.

It was not something I thought about.

So you just sort of fell into that?

Well, I did, yeah, because I needed to get a job.

And my closest friend said to me, oh, there's a very interesting new newspaper opening up.

why don't you go and see them?

So I did go and see them.

Nobody asked me if I could write.

So I was really pleased, although I may well have lied and said, yes, I could, because I'd previously lied about, you know, how brilliant I was at science when I tried to get a job at the CSIRO.

But nobody asked me and they told me I had the job.

Well, it was a magazine covering the world of contemporary music, rock music, and it was Australia's first, and it was started with absolutely no money by two editors from the Monash University publication.

We didn't think we were all very young and we didn't think about what the future of this newspaper would be and it was miraculous that it became a national newspaper.

Really miraculous considering nobody really knew what they were doing.

Yeah, I was.

The only interview that I ever said no to was on my first day because I had never used a typewriter and nor had I ever seen a tape recorder.

And when I arrived at work on my first day, which was I think a day after I got the job, they said, oh, Bob Dylan's in town.

Can you do the interview?

And if I had known how to use a tape recorder, I might have said yes, but I said no.

And I've never said no to any interview since.