“If novels and stories are bulletins from the progressive states of ignorance a writer passes through over the years, observations and opinions about horses are all the more so, since horses are more mysterious than life and harder to understand.” IfsYearsStatesStoriesOpinionNovelIgnoranceHorseHarderMysteriousObservationProgressive Book:A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money and Luck Source: A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money and Luck
“Do you solemnly swear never to conceal a vital clue from the reader? Do you promise to observe seemly moderation in the use of gangs, conspiracies, Super Criminals and Lunatics and utterly and forever to forswear Mysterious Poisons unknown to science? Will you honor the King's English? ... If you fail to keep your promise, may other writers steal your plots and your pages swarm with misprints.” IfsMayUseNovelForeverFailingMysteryReaderKingsHonorPromisePagesCriminalsStealingMysteriousPoisonPlotConspiracySwearModerationClueGangSwarmsMystery Novels Author:Dorothy L. Sayers
“Elena Ferrante is the author of several novels. There is nothing mysterious about her, given how she manifests herself - perhaps even too much - in her own writing, the place where her creative life transpires in absolute fullness.” WritingGivenNovelCreativeToo MuchAbsolutesMysteriousFullnessCreative Life Book:Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey Source: Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey