“Connecting With Authors”
“Literature is the original Internet – every footnote, every citation, every allusion is essentially a hyperlink to another text, to another mind.”
― Maria Popova
Any time I become interested in a writer, I search up everything I can about them. What I love about being alive today is the accessibility of it all. I especially love the classics and most of the classic works are free and accessible. There’s free eBooks on sites like Project Gutenberg and Internet Archive. There’s audio books on YouTube and tons of blurbs about classic writers and summaries of their works.
I’m the girl that’s in the history of writers aisle. I was listening to an interview with Maria Popova, and she mentioned that she got to pour over all of Mary Shelley’s journals and that in my opinion is a vacation worth investing in. And that isn’t limited to Mary Shelley.
Any time I dig into the lives of these writers I find myself becoming a little more human. Well, I am human, but I think it allows me to accept those parts of myself as a writer that I wouldn’t have known to accept without their story. Books change me but writers give me space to be human.
What writer would you like to know more about?
-Saschia ✨Jayne✨ Johnson
Thanks for reading. 😁
