1. Why do you blog?
Because I want to be immortal. Maybe in the waning years of my life I would want to indulge in my thoughts and preoccupations over those hidden periods in my life. It’s like a diary, but a diary that I can open any time, anywhere and read.
2. Which author and/or book [...]



In the lives of many of us there comes about a place that replaces our childhood home. A place that becomes a second spiritual home, closer in some ways than our original home. For writers and perhaps for some readers this can be a fictional place. One thinks of the landscapes of writers like Daphne [...]



A sense of belonging, of having a past that helps to explain you and perhaps went a long way to making and moulding you, comes through strongly in the fiction of such diverse novelists as Thomas Hardy and William Faulkner, of Graham Greene, Isaac Bashevis Singer and Gustav Flaubert. Not to mention contemporary authors like [...]






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It is a truth universally acknowledged that published authors, even those whose books have not yet appeared before the public, are filled with a new and reckless confidence in their own powers. Carol Shields

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