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David Appleby, in the first of a series entitled Shortbreader Inspiration, uses the structure of an interview in order to fully express what inspires him as an author.
‘What are your literary genes?’
‘I have no literary genes, none that I know of.’
‘No other writers in your family, then?’
‘No.’
‘Well, were you read to as child and discovered… 
