Don’t be Ashamed of your TBR Book Pile – David Quammen QUOTES FOR WRITERS AND READERS
Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its … Continue reading
Mrs Finnegan’s Almanac: A Celebration!
This Almanac is One Year Old! It was on the 28th day of March 1836 at 8 O’ clock in the morning that I picked up my quill and started … Continue reading
What Reading Teaches you – James Baldwin QUOTES FOR WRITERS (AND READERS)
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented … Continue reading
Mrs Finnegan’s Almanac: Rainy Days and Daffodil Days.
I am not entirely sure what happiness is, but I think it must SMELL like Brighton on a daffodil morning when the wind blows from the south and it is … Continue reading
Fiction and Non-Fiction – the Difference Aminatta Forna QUOTES FOR WRITERS
Don DeLillo once quipped that a fiction writer starts with meaning and manufactures events to represent it; the writer of creative nonfiction starts with events, then derives meaning from them. … Continue reading
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