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Reflections of a working writer and reader

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Writers should be read but neither seen nor heard. Daphne du Maurier

Margaret Atwood Simone de Beauvoir Samuel Beckett Walter Benjamin William Blake Jorge Luis Borges Andre Breton Emily Bronte William Burroughs Albert Camus Angela Carter Kate Chopin Jean Cocteau Colette

Fyodor Dostoevsky Helen Dunmore Daphne du Maurier Marguerite Duras Albert Einstein Kirstin Ekman George Eliot TS Eliot

William Faulkner Charlotte Perkins Gilman Allen Ginsberg

Natalia Ginzburg Leslie Glaister Graham Greene Dashiell Hammett

Lillian Hellman Ernest Hemingway Knut Hamsun Victor Hugo Henrik Ibsen

Franz Kafka Jackie Kay Kathe Kollwitz Milan Kundera Doris Lessing Clarice Lispector Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Carson McCullers Arthur Miller Henry Miller Manuel Vázquez Montalbán Iris Murdoch Pablo Neruda Octavio Paz

Sylvia Plath Edgar Allen Poe Ezra Pound Annie Proulx Marcel Proust

Jean Rhys Marilynne Robinson drawing of philip roth
Leonardo Sciascia F Scott Fitzgerald Rachel Seiffert William Shakespeare Carol Shields Isaac Bashevis Singer Muriel Spark Robert Louis Stevenson August Strindberg Colm Tóibín Leo Tolstoy

Mark Twain Anne Tyler Alice Walker Oscar Wilde
Thornton Wilder Tennessee Williams Thomas Wolfe

Virginia Woolf Mary Wollstonecraft