Ask the Author: Ginny Rorby
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Ginny Rorby
"If the book will be too difficult for grownups, then you write it for children."
Madeleine L'Engle
"If the book will be too difficult for grownups, then you write it for children."
Madeleine L'Engle
Ginny Rorby
From watching the Ken Burns series on the Dust Bowl and then reading Timothy Egan's book The Worst Hard Time Ever.
Ginny Rorby
A fictionalized memoir.
Ginny Rorby
I don't. I just sit down to do it, and pretty soon, I'm writing.
Ginny Rorby
I was adopted. Supposedly, my birth mother and father were married, her parents had the marriage annulled (she was 18; he 32) then she discovered she was pregnant, but realized she didn't "love him anymore" (remember being 18?) and decided to give me up instead of remarrying. More angles to that than I can count.
Ginny Rorby
Iceland. It's on my bucket list. I'd just drive around and around, soaking in the beauty. Second choice, back to the Galapagos, where I would sit and watch the fur seals play and the marine iguanas sneeze.
Ginny Rorby
I'm reading Kate Atkinson's Jackson Brodie mysteries.
Ginny Rorby
READ! Reading is inhaling, writing is exhaling.
Ginny Rorby
Not getting dressed in the morning, or maybe even the whole day.
Ginny Rorby
Take a bath. I read somewhere the 3 Bs of creativity are bed, bath, and bus. If I get stuck, I take a bath. If I really want to free my mind up, I take a train somewhere. Not as fond of buses. :-)
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