From Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson: "Truth for anyone is a very complex thing. For a writer, what you leave out says as much... read more
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From Lucy Maud Montgomery's slim memoir The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career (Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1997), originally published as a series of essays in the Toronto magazine Everywoman's World in... read more
From Inside Memory: Pages from a Writer's Notebook by Timothy Findley (Toronto: Harper Perennial Canada, 1999; first edition Toronto: HarperCollins Canada, 1990) "Stone Orchard November 11, 1970 Radio In the... read more
Happy new year, everyone! I hope you've plunged into 2013 keen to begin, or carry on, writing. Coming... read more
Timing is everything. When Will Ferguson agreed last summer to be guest author for the fall 2012 session of my University of Toronto online course Memories into Story: Introduction to Life Writing,... read more
From the novel The Age of Hope, by David Bergen (2012, HarperCollins Canada): "I was born in 1930." "You were." "Oh, why write such nonsense?" And then, pleased, she said,... read more