"And there were other dreams. In one of these another woman appeared, and although Jesse knew her immediately he stood quietly as she...

When you are writing your hero, it can be useful to imagine them differently... to see their virtues through a smokier lens, to root out...

We have hitherto considered only two possibilities: that the received opinion may be false, and some other opinion, consequently, true;...

We all know the first part of this aphorism but how many of us are familiar with the second part? It completely changes the complexion of...

When you are writing fiction (especially deep mythic fiction, channeled from somewhere else) your characters sometimes give you...

I recently had the pleasure of reading The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. Actually "pleasure" might be too strong a word. Steinbeck's...

It is difficult to know what to say about Erich Fromm, especially in a short piece such as this. He seems to me to be a total outlier in...

"You know what you are to me, he said. What I was before I met you. I breathed and I moved but my life stood only in the desolate places....

Don’t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank and set...

This must surely be the holy grail of fiction writing. The ability to tell stories that come from some place other than our conscious...

I thought for many years that the beseeching or begging mode of prayer was the best and only one. This kind of prayer is represented in...