Comments on: From the turbulent and insubstantial fog. http://bordersblog.com/scifi/2010/04/02/celine-kiernan-and-glenda-larke/from-the-turbulent-and-insubstantial-fog/ Just another Bordersblog.com weblog Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:22:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Terry http://bordersblog.com/scifi/2010/04/02/celine-kiernan-and-glenda-larke/from-the-turbulent-and-insubstantial-fog/comment-page-1/#comment-4045 Terry Mon, 05 Apr 2010 20:10:09 +0000 http://bordersblog.com/scifi/?p=2037#comment-4045 "But I suspect there’s more than a grain of the writer in each of our characters, there’s more than a splinter of biography in our stories. I can’t see how it’s possible for there not to be." Agree. I can't see how an author could avoid putting something of themselves into what they write. Cripes, I write non-fiction & criticism and I still can't avoid having my personality creep into my work. Also agree that it's not at all a good idea to try to analyze an author's work biographically. How can I have any hope of knowing what's going through someone else's mind when half the time I don't even understand my own motivations. “But I suspect there’s more than a grain of the writer in each of our characters, there’s more than a splinter of biography in our stories. I can’t see how it’s possible for there not to be.”

Agree. I can’t see how an author could avoid putting something of themselves into what they write. Cripes, I write non-fiction & criticism and I still can’t avoid having my personality creep into my work.

Also agree that it’s not at all a good idea to try to analyze an author’s work biographically. How can I have any hope of knowing what’s going through someone else’s mind when half the time I don’t even understand my own motivations.

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