“My books are based on the "what if" principle. "What if you became invisible?" or "What if you did change into your mother for one day?" I then take it from there. Each book takes several months in the long process of writing, rewriting, writing, rewriting, and each has its own set of problems. The one thing I dislike about the writing process is the sometimes-loneliness of it all. Readers only get to see the glamour part of a bound book, not some of the agonizing moments one has while constructing it.” IfsWritingLongBookSometimesMomentsProblemMotherProcessPrinciplesOne ThingLonelinessMonthsReaderOne DayBoundsInvisibleWhat IfDislikeWriting ProcessGlamourRewritingAgonizing Author:Mary Rodgers
“I had a good mind to discontinue permanently the supply of grain to the city, reliance on which had discouraged Italian agriculture, but refrained because some politician would be bound one day to revive the dole as a means of ingratiating himself with the people.” PeopleMindMeanWould BeCitiesPoliticianOne DayBoundsItalianGrainAgricultureRelianceDiscouragedReviveGood Mind Author:Augustus
“Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned his wife for the sake of a youthful mistress; he loved; was not loved; and his life ended in disaster. This is the whole of the story and we might have left it at that had there not been profit and pleasure in the telling; and although there is plenty of space on a gravestone to contain, bound in moss, the abridged version of a man's life, detail is always welcome.” MenWholeStoriesMightLeftSpacePleasureRichWifeOne DayBoundsSakeProfitDetailsDisasterVersionsWelcomePlentyGermanyAbandonedMistressRespectableBerlinOnce Upon A TimeMossGravestone Book:Laughter in the Dark Source: Laughter in the Dark
“Sometimes you imagine that everything could have been different for you, that if only you had gone right one day when you chose to go left, you would be living a life you could never have anticipated. But at other times you think there was no other way forward--that you were always bound to end up exactly where you have.” IfsThinkingWayHas BeensDifferentEndsSometimesWould BeLeftGoneImagineOne DayBoundsImagine ThatCould Have BeenWay Forward Book:The View from the Seventh Layer: Stories Source: The View from the Seventh Layer: Stories