Who are you?
I don’t know.
[Don’t say that, say something humble and brave, about wandering and not being lost and how I still haven’t found what I’m looking for. Quote a poet. Or a philosopher. Do not quote Star Trek. Please.]
I know who I am but I’m not going to tell you.
What do you write?
I write […]

Who are you?
It’s only when I crossed 40 that I realized I should do the thing I love the most, to write. So you could say it’s only since the last few years that I have no hesitation in calling myself a writer.
What do you write?
At the moment equal doses of fiction and nonfiction. Some […]

Interesting story on Murakami in The Prague Post online. This quote on the writing process caught my eye:
Each book he writes represents a journey inside himself, he says. “I’m just sketching what I saw in the darkness,” he says. “Sometimes it’s fun, [but] sometimes it’s dangerous, so I have to protect myself. That’s why I’m […]

1. Who are you?
To be honest, I’m not entirely sure. I am a Canadian who has live most of her life in the United States. So I figure this makes me North American. I am a daughter and a sister and a wife and an Aunt I am hopeful to one day be a mother. […]

This past summer I was given Shirley Hazzard’s The Great Fire in its Greek incarnation - Ο Έρωτας θα ανατείλει ξανά. When I first opened the package and saw the title - Love Will Rise Again - I tried not to cringe at what on first look seemed like a melodramatic Greek romance novel. I […]

A great novelist is essentially tolerant, that is, displays a real apprehension of persons other than the author as having a right to exist and to have a separate mode of being which is important and interesting to themselves.
- Iris Murdoch
(I have no idea where this comes from. I’ve scribbled it on some paper and […]

Interesting piece in The Age about Kate Grenville’s The Secret River.
Novelist Kate Grenville has upset historians by claiming her Booker-shortlisted The Secret River is a new form of history writing.
…begins the report by Jane Sullivan. While researching the story, Grenville came across “dispatch from Governor Arthur Phillip, written a few months after the First […]