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Posts tagged ‘Harper Lee’

Prolific or Prodigious: What would you rather be as a writer?

As a writer how would you like to be remembered: a one book wonder, who never found enough words to write another, but with the legacy of a work that was well received; or would you rather be someone who reeled off one book after the other like a well-oiled writing machine. I had a bit of an idea, and began compiling a list of books whose authors managed only one notable work of fiction in their life time. The first list threw up a lot of surprises. In the list were writers I enjoyed over the years and whose work I kept reading and re-reading.

The list went something like this…

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11 Mustn’t Miss Movies on Writers

This was a difficult list to make considering the fact that there are so many great movies I had to leave out. Naked Lunch, Cross Creek, Permanent Midnight, Sylvia….I could go on. I have very simple criterion for judging movies: if it touched me in some away, if I remembered the dialogues, if it taught me a lesson or inspired me. Without further ado then…

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Ten books that stay with you

Everybody has a list of books, albeit a constantly changing one, of books that stay with your thoughts long after it had been put away, books that you can’t help rereading once in a while, books you keeping going back to because you fell in love with the words or its characters, the whole story, all its nuances. There could be hundreds of reasons why you fell in love with one particular book. You must have been down in the dumps for a while, and it cheered you up. Books that felt a part of you when you were growing up. Books that inspired. Books that made you cry. Books that touched your heart. Books that made you angry, books that left you feeling helpless. Books that left an indelible impression on your mind. Books that you can’t let go…

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