A Writer's Tale

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All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.

Ernest Hemingway

Quoted in Hemingway: The Writer as Artist by Carlos

Baker, 1952.

WHO AM I TO BE WRITING A BOOK ABOUT MY LIFE AS A WRITER?

Let’s start by saying it wasn’t my idea. John Scoleri and Peter Enfantino, two of the fellows behind the publication of my first short story collection, A Good, Secret Place, approached me about it.

Early on, this was intended to be along the lines of a “Laymon companion”: including a complete bibliography, a biographical sketch, an interview, some articles about me, and various other bits and pieces that might be of interest to my die-hard fans.

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