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Tag Archives: Paris
Behind The Scenes Part Two
As I promised yesterday, here’s more from the interesting and revealing interview Irving Wallace, the great American writer, had with the judges of the Nobel Prize, in Sweden. “I wanted more of Dr. Hedin’s behind-the-scenes anecdotes. I knew that this … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Einstein, America, Anton Chekhov, art, article, articles, author, awards, books, courage, drama, emotion, fear, feelings, Hollywood, humor, ideas, India, influence, Irving Wallace, Judge, language, Leo Tolstoy, library, literature, love, Nobel prize, Paris, peace, poetry, reading, Russia, science, Sweden, thoughts, wisdom, write, writer, writing
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Less Is More
In my article yesterday, I spoke about sex scenes in fiction, and how what was once taboo is now being accepted with such grandiose openness, with books like ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’, aka ‘mommy porn’ as referred to by the … Continue reading
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Tagged author, blog, book, books, creative writing, dreams, Ellen DeGeneres, emotion, family, feelings, fiction, Fifty Shades Of Grey, film, Gustave Flaubert, ideas, imagination, joy, kiss, life, literature, love, Nicholas Sparks, novel, Paris, people, publishing, racing, reading, romance, scene, sex, story, teenager, thoughts, tweet, words, write, writer, writing
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Whatever Happened To Less Is More
The other day my friend’s fifteen year old daughter asked me if I have read ‘Fifty Shades Of Grey’. When I said no, she went on to wonder whether it is like the Harlequin books or erotica, or porn. I … Continue reading
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Tagged author, blog, book, books, creative writing, dreams, Ellen DeGeneres, emotion, family, feelings, fiction, Fifty Shades Of Grey, film, Gustave Flaubert, ideas, imagination, joy, kiss, life, literature, love, Nicholas Sparks, novel, Paris, people, publishing, racing, reading, romance, scene, sex, story, teenager, thoughts, tweet, words, write, writer, writing
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Stop Look Listen
A story – a tale, a narrative, an account, an anecdote. A short story – a tale, a fable, a novella, a parable. I love to read short stories. My all time favorites are: The Necklace- Guy de Maupassant The … Continue reading
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Tagged Anton Chekhov, art, artist, author, blog, blogger, blogging, book, books, characters, creative, creative writing, doubt, dreams, emotion, feelings, fiction, friends, Guy de Maupassant, ideas, imagination, inspiration, library, life, literature, love, memories, novel, Paris, poetry, publishing, short story, story, thoughts, words, work, write, writer, writing
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2011 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 57,000 times in 2011. If it were a … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, blog, book, Canada, daughter, dream, England, feelings, fiction, home, hope, house, internet, joy, kids, library, life, love, magic, memory, new year, news, novel, opera, Paris, peace, people, poetry, Prix Goncourt, reading, religion, rendezvous, Robert Fisk, Simone De Beauvoir, Sydney, United States, William Saroyan, writer, writing
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Rendezvous With William Saroyan
“Well for God’s sake, what’s that lousy Armenian son of a bitch doing here?” stated Ernest Hemingway. The more I tried to hush him, the worse it got. Finally Saroyan’s companion… began to come back at Ernest. I am not … Continue reading
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Tagged Academy Award, Amazon, Amazon UK, Anjar, Armenian, author, bestseller, book, books, change, drama, e-book, English, Ernest Hemingway, high school, humans, innovation, journalist, Lebanon, library, life, Mark twain, news, Nobel prize, notebook, novel, Paris, play, publisher, Pulitzer Prize, read, reader, short story, story, theme, William Saroyan, writer, writing, young
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This Is Where It All Began
You might have read in my previous post that 1986 is a year of great significance to me. In the summer of that year my husband and I traveled to Rome, Venice and Paris. It was the most unforgettable trip … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, book, books, Cafe De Flore, desk, dream, dreams, e-book, editor, existentialism, existentialist, female writer, feminist, French, husband, interview, Jean Paul Sartre, Latin Quarters, literature, Luxembourg, memoirs, music, novel, Paris, philosophy, Picasso, poetry, Prix Goncourt, publishers, Rome, Salvador Dali, Simone De Beauvoir, Sorbonne, St. Germain, University, Venice, writer, writing
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