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It’s all too easy for your eye to see what it wants to see, instead of what’s actually there.

To get into the festive mood, you should read Carol Ann Duffy’s Christmas poems. They are beautifully written, insightful, and present the season in the most perfect way.

Johnson ran out of space, and had to omit about half the quotations he had collected. Words in the first part of the alphabet were much more fully illustrated.

Robert would often go to France, where he would spend time in the company of artists and writers whilst writing essays on his travels – travelling would inform much of his future writing.

If you have always wanted to write a book but have lacked the discipline and motivation, this could be just the thing you have been looking for.

Bram Stoker numbered among his friends the celebrated creator of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle, who called Dracula ‘the very best story of diablerie which I have read for many years’.

Blank page syndrome often occurs when life is already stressful.

There are many quotations for which Oscar Wilde is famous. One of them is: ‘To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance’.

Poetry is especially good at portraying the change in the seasons.

The 7th October marks 102 years since women were given the right to earn a degree from Oxford University. This fact alone demonstrates the long and difficult journey towards education equality that women in Britain have struggled with.