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

On Forms

So stories are perfect for a Romantic kind of optimist/pessimist like I am, fascinated by the transient.
Ali Smith

I am terrified about starting a novel. I feel like throwing up every time I think of it. I want to start it so badly that it is nearly killing me. I have been writing page after page in my head. I know so clearly what I want to do – all I don’t know is how to do it. Everything is so complex.
Margaret Laurence, A Letter to Adele Wiseman, 2 May, 1967