I don't know why Sinclair Lewis fell in love with me. He didn't get even the slightest response from me. But his letters were lovely. And the poems he wrote me were lovely. I used some of them in my book.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that.
At some point, I fell in love. Shortly thereafter, I got my heart broken. Sniff, sniff. And I realized at a young age - no matter what any adult literary critic would have us believe about female strength and autonomy - there is no test to strength of character like love.
The first author I remember being obsessed by, actually realizing 'I like the way he writes and I like the way he tells stories,' was C.S. Lewis and the 'Narnia' books.
The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
I was fortunate enough to write about things I really love, and love can be very analytic.
When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.
My novels are often about people who are in love or attracted to each other.
Sometimes, when you are in a really constrained situation, it makes you more focused about what you want to say and where you're heading. The most beautiful love poems that were ever written are sonnets, composed in a very constraining form.
So much inspires me. People living their lives with courage, beauty of all kinds, nature in all its aspects, people I love and people I hardly know, and, of course, other poets.
Love stories are probably all I've ever been able to write or want to write.
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