Virginia Woolf talks fruit

"As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall."

 

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Coming Soon

* Fresh Picked - review of a debut work by a Canadian writer, plucked from the tree of a Canadian publisher

* Fruit Basket - reviews of an established Canadian author's works, one bite -- er, book -- after the next

* Cobbler - reviews of an assortment of Canadian works on a theme, a variety of flavours to tempt your tongue

Quote stolen in July (Steve Almond)

From the July/August 2010 print edition of Poets&Writers:

“If you are working on a collection of erotic e-mails addressed to members of the Republican congressional leadership team and composed in iambic pentameter (as I am), you might want to go with self-publication.”
Steve Almond’s Self-Publishing 101

Quote stolen in June

From the Financial Times Q&A with Jose Saramago, 2009

Q. What is your daily writing routine?
A. I write two pages. And then I read and read and read.

Quote stolen in May

One of the paradoxes of writing is that when you write non-fiction everyone tries to prove that it’s wrong, and when you publish fiction, everyone tries to see the truth in it.
~ Scarlett Thomas Our Tragic Universe (2010)