BBCNEWS This Cultural Life June 4, 2024 02:54:00
From les mis", or stop musically commenting on itself and stop textually commenting on itself. he was like, "just write..." i mean, he didn't put it in that many words. he just gave me a nudge in that direction. i realised what he was saying is i didn't need to armour myself with meta, with irony, with satire. i could just write with words to try and elicit a genuine emotion out of the audience. and once he gave me permission to do that, it actually... changed my life. matilda sits in culture as something that altered british culture a tiny bit, and i contributed to it and that made me think, ...