I don’t remember now where I read it, but I just recently read somewhere a comment on the memoirs of two famous people of the past. It seems that one “invented” a boat that didn’t really exist, while the other left out any mention of numerous sexual affairs he had had.
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The Spice Of Life
Variety is the spice of life—and I definitely like my life “spicy.” I would hate to have a career in which I did the same thing over and over all day, every day, day in and day out. “But, Cynthia—you write and edit. All day, every day, the same two things,” I can hear you...
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A Valentine For Readers Everywhere
Today is February 14—Valentine’s Day. So I’m sending love to all you readers out there. Where would we writers be without our readers? We’d be “playing to an empty house,” to borrow the vernacular of the theatre. If nobody read our books (and articles and poems and essays and miscellany), we’d soon be out of...
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Fiction And Dissatisfaction—Is There A Link?
A connection that may or may not be real occurred to me recently, and I thought I’d run it by you. How much truth do you think there is in this statement: Many people who are dissatisfied with their lives prefer reading fiction over nonfiction because through fiction they can escape to alternate lives. Many...