English writer living in the west of Ireland; former deputy editor of The Ecologist, co-founder of the Dark Mountain Project, author of The Wake and Against the Machine.
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Machines will soon be writing books.
Those machines will be writing books soon enough, which leaves those of us who love words in an awkward position.
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When you feel a deep need for silence, it comes for a reason and you should follow it.
What I learned was that when the silence descends on you, it happens for a reason. When you feel the need to be quiet - when, in fact, it feels quite clearly like a spiritual compulsion - then you need to follow the feeling.
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We spurn AI at all stages of the production process.
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But now I find myself in a world flooded with words, more and more of which are literally inhuman.
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Machines will soon be writing books.Their words
Those machines will be writing books soon enough, which leaves those of us who love words in an awkward position.
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What I learned was that when the silence descends on you, it happens for a reason. When you feel the need to be quiet - when, in fact, it feels quite clearly like a spiritual compulsion - then you need to follow the feeling.
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In St Mawr, Lawrence writes about wildness and civilisation.
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Those machines will be writing books soon enough, which leaves those of us who love words in an awkward position.
Hermit Crab Press Said 13 Oct 2026
But now I find myself in a world flooded with words, more and more of which are literally inhuman.
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We spurn AI at all stages of the production process.
Hermit Crab Press Said 13 Oct 2026
What I learned was that when the silence descends on you, it happens for a reason. When you feel the need to be quiet - when, in fact, it feels quite clearly like a spiritual compulsion - then you need to follow the feeling.
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