How Starting a Family Impacted My Writing

Phil Hurst
An Idea (by Ingenious Piece)
9 min readNov 7, 2019

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I was watching an episode of the excellent Inside Number 9 called The Riddle of the Sphinx (British licence fee payers can check out the episode here) and I was struck when one of the characters was asked why he hadn’t had children. “There is no more sombre enemy of good art,” he replied, “than the pram in the hall.”

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Phil Hurst
An Idea (by Ingenious Piece)

Storyteller. Specifically sci-fi, history, crime. Occasional advice giver. Find out more: www.philhurstwriter.co.uk