I think it’s the shock of every writer’s life when their first book is published. The shock of their lives. One has somehow to adjust from being anon… - Ted Hughes

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I think it’s the shock of every writer’s life when their first book is published. The shock of their lives. One has somehow to adjust from being anonymous, a figure in ambush, working from concealment, to being and working in full public view. It had an enormous effect on me. My impression was that I had suddenly walked into a wall of heavy hostile fire.