The Truth About Lies

It Chooses You

Published on 2012-02-19 16:45:00

You’ve broken it wide open, Pollock – Marcia Gay Harden to Ed Harris in Pollock If there is one thing we authors have in common, it’s people. We may write about anthropomorphic animals or aliens or the undead but strip away all the gloss and we’re writing about people: the people next door, the people down the street, the people we met last week in a bring-and-buy sale, the people who taught us English, the people who gave us life in the first place. Such a diverse bunch and yet

Apricot Jam and Other Stories

Published on 2012-02-14 16:30:00

[I]t’s pure physics: Human nature has not enough time to follow everything going on around it. An artist has to be placed at some distance from his object. If he just sets down his momentary expressions it will be more like an essay, a piece of reporting, than a work of art. Few authors are able to capture pieces of reality instantly. … The majority must have time for their impressions to settle down. And also at a certain age one begins to write not about the historical past, but about oneâ

A Country Road. A Tree. Evening.

Published on 2012-02-09 16:45:00

A place for everything, everything in its place – Benjamin Franklin Writers are frequently asked to talk about what inspires them. It’s a difficult question for me to answer because I don’t believe in inspiration, not in any Romantic sense of the word and I never talk about my muse. I believe in ideas. My definition of inspiration is a good idea. And I can get a good idea anywhere. I had a religious upbringing. It didn’t do me any harm but I can’t say my world view has not bee