The Well

“The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.”
~Samuel Johnson

Writers keep their creative wells filled by reading.  Some of Kathy’s favorite refreshment:

• Ray Bradbury:  Zen in the Art of Writing
• Marc Chagall:  My Life
• Edna Buchanan:  The Corpse Had a Familiar Face
• Frederick Buechner:  Yellow Leaves, Godrick, Love Feast
• Harlan Coben:  the Myron Bolitar series
• Annie Dillard:  The Writing Life, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, For the Time Being, Holy the Firm
• Steve Hamilton:  The Lock Artist
• Robert Henri:  The Art Spirit
• Paul Kemprecos:  the Aristotle Socarides series
• Anne Lamott:  Traveling Mercies, Bird by Bird
• Steven Lindsay:  the Dexter series, especially Darkly Dreaming Dexter and Dexter in the Dark
• Rachel Lloyd:  Girls Like Us
• Henri Nouwen:  The Inner Voice of Love and The Prodigal Son
• Chaim Potok:  My Name Is Asher Lev, The Gift of Asher Lev, The Chosen, The Book of Lights
• Lynn Truss:  Eats, Shoots & Leaves
• Elie Wiesel:  Night, Messengers of God, From the Kingdom of Memory

She also enjoys the odd science magazine, like Discover, New Scientist, Popular Science, Wired, and Science Illustrated.  Reading well-written science—especially the kind that involves technology, gadgetry, and/or medicine—is almost as good as eating ice cream.

Almost.