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He is going to become a writer, or in Joyce’s lofty phrase “a priest of the eternal imagination”. Those words…
It’s time I admitted to myself the rather galling fact that much as I love the look of notebooks, that…
There’s a change or at least a preoccupation, not only as words are being penned or typed but also, invisibly,…
However it gets done, whatever works for each individual writer, there is only one thing that unites us all; we…
One of the great pleasures of re-reading something is that the pressure is off. You can skip the bits you…
There’s a wayward part of me that resists plotting and wants to just plunge in. But if I yield to…
And do you think you don’t need to learn how to dissect a frog because you have discovered T. S.…
How does one describe a baby, or anything else for that matter; how forensically, how deeply, does one investigate? How…
The writer in me seemed to want to go one step further and turn this response into words; readable, informative,…
A family that reads together passes down a wonderful inheritance; words enveloped in love, and thus given meaning. Reading habits…
We look back on our ancestors and especially our female ancestors or impoverished ancestors from a standpoint of extraordinary privilege.…
At home I felt trapped, powerless to change the dreadful circumstances and unable to leave. My trips to York provided…
