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."

 

September 2010
M T W T F S S
« Aug    
 12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
27282930  

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

On Characters

There was something appealing in thinking of a character with a secret life that her author knew nothing about. Slipping off while the author’s back was turned, to find love in her own way. Showing up just in time to deliver the next bit of dialogue with an innocent face.
Karen Joy Fowler The Jane Austen Book Club

Saving characters is like saving string. You never know when you may need that piece of string.
Margaret Atwood, Globe&Mail, June 29, 2002 R9

I feel that very strongly about my characters…. In a profound sense you are not manipulating them. They are free – it isn’t that you set them free – they are free.
Margaret Laurence, A Conversation with Robert Kroetsch, 1970