Every Writer Has To Find Their Own

When You Are Reading, Someone Has Done A Lot Of Work On Your Behalf, Someone Has Had Ideas And Has Then Written And Corrected And Improved Them So That They Can Be Shared.

Perhaps Every Time Anyone Is Praised It Means That Someone Else Somewhere Is Going To Be Ignored

It Changes You For Ever, But You Are Changing For Ever Anyway.

At The Same Time, I Think Books Create A Sort Of Network In The Reader's Mind, With One Book Reinforcing Another. Some Books Form Relationships. Other Books Stand In Opposition. No Two Writers Or Readers Have The Same Pattern Of Interaction.

Being A Librarian Certainly Helped Me With My Writing Because It Made Me Even More Of A Reader, And I Was Always An Enthusiastic Reader. Writing And Reading Seem To Me To Be Different Aspects Of A Single Imaginative Act.