Month: July 2012
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Writing my life
“Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works” -Virginia Woolf This quote struck me this morning, and hits on something I’ve believed for a long time. As a writer, I’m often asked if a novel is autobiographical. It’s an annoying question…
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A thought on writers
“Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again. Born writers of the future are amazed already at what they’re seeing now, what we’ll all see in time for the first time, and then see imitated many times by made writers.” Jack Kerouac A Ditty…
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I’m not whining – really
Two things happened this morning that gave me pause. Yesterday I finished a book on my Kindle. I’m not going to mention the name of the book, but I kept thinking I should write a review on amazon. So I went to the page and saw the book already had seventy-six reviews – all of…