Anita Sethi
‘I can’t remember a time I did not love writing, and it’s been a vocation of mine since childhood (but for the brief time before that I dreamed of being an astronaut). Since I learnt to read and write I’ve been entranced by the powers of language and wanted to try and use it in the very best way I could. I also have a bit of an obsession with the actual tools of writing – and a geeky love of fountain pens and ink.
‘I didn’t know any writers and writing wasn’t particularly encouraged as a profession for me to pursue, and am forthcoming in . I’m also lucky in that I’ve got to interview some of my favourite writers – I went birdwatching with Margaret Atwood as a setting for an interview, for example, in the UK’s oldest nature reserve an experience that informed by thinking and writing about nature.
