Frederick Forsyth has been known to go all the way for all his research material for his thrillers.There are reports that say he prevented a near death call when he ran for his life after finding out that the underworld gun dealer he was about to meet found out that he was a writer looking... Continue Reading →
For all the brilliance and the awards that Maclean had been heaped with he didn’t have a very romantic notion about writing nor about his own ability. MacLean himself had a very clear concept of his work: "I'm not a novelist, I'm a storyteller. There is no art in what I do, no mystique." Many... Continue Reading →
In 1928 Antoine de Saint Exupéry became the director of the remote Cap Juby airfield in Rio de Oro, Sahara (He had joined the French Air Force, flying reconnaissance missions until France's armistice with Germany in 1940). His house was a wooden shack and he slept on a thin straw mattress. In this isolation Saint-Exupéry learned to love... Continue Reading →
Eckhart Tolle bagan his spiritual quest at the age of 29 after a bout of suicidal depression. He punctuated it by becoming a language teacher in London for three years. His father did not force him to go to school and Eckhart often studied topics such as Astronomy, Literature and Language at home.Source: TriviaA New... Continue Reading →
Sarah Winman has starred in many British television productions. She is best known for her role as Davina MacKenzie in the hospital drama "Holby City" by BBC and as H. G. Wells wife, Jane Wells on BBC's biopic of the author, "HG Wells: War with the World." Sarah is also a fictional novelist. Her debut book... Continue Reading →
American Gods by Neil Gaiman is a "cross-country adventure that explored a world in which the gods of old struggled to remain relevant in modern American culture." About the book, Gaiman has said, “All of the things that I loved about America that just seemed weird went into ‘American Gods,’ ” he laughed. “I was fascinated by the... Continue Reading →
Orwell in his book Politics and the English Language gave us his point on crispiness and the importance of lucid simple language. He votes "vague language" as a powerful and helpful tool in politically manipulating readers. In a nutshell here the six rules for writers: Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are... Continue Reading →
One of the common complaints about Wilde's novel was that it didn't take a strong moral stance, and that it demonstrated the author's own immorality (Wilde was a famously scandalous celebrity). Frustrated with these goody-two-shoes critics, Wilde responded that they had committed "the unpardonable crime of trying to confuse the artist with his subject matter."... Continue Reading →
Did you know that J.R.R. Tolkien even based one of his characters on C.S. Lewis? Treebeard, the leader of the walking trees known as “Ents,” shares many of Lewis’s mannerisms, such as a booming voice and a constant throat-clearing habit. The deep camaraderie the duo shared is probably best summarized in a letter from Tolkien... Continue Reading →
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