Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.

There's a paradox in rereading. You read the first time for rediscovery: an encounter with the confirming emotions. But you reread for discovery: you go to the known to figure out the workings of the unknown, the why of the familiar how.

... woman is frequently praised as the more "creative" sex. She does not need to make poems, it is argued; she has no drive to make poems, because she is privileged to make babies. A pregnancy is as fulfilling as, say, Yeats' Sailing to Byzantium.... To call a child a poem may be a pretty metaphor, but it is a slur on the labor of art.

Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.

Bohemia and all its works are vanished out of America; or, more exactly, bohemia has migrated to the middle class, and is alive and well in condo and suburb.

Of comic novels that have quaffed the elixir of 'classic': Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm.

The art of fiction is freedom of will for your characters.