All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts.
All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts.
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.
My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.
My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.
When I was discharged, I attended the University of Paris and met a beautiful Parisian girl, Janine. We soon married and eventually returned to the States.
I loved all the world's mythologies.
After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published.
After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.
My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.
Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
King Arthur was one of my heroes - I played with a trash can lid for a knightly shield and my uncle's cane for the sword Excalibur.
Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships.
There's this huge number of desperate people.
The idea is to give people a quick start back to recovery.
This was just a great game to watch. This is what Friday night football is all about.
It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army.
Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.
I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.
At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope
Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
I first wrote for adults, but when I started writing for young people, it was the most creative and liberating experience of my life.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories