Ask the Author: Larry Ellis
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Larry Ellis
I am not. If they are attributed to me in my profile, that's none of my doing. My only books are In The Forest of The Night and Overtime: A Basketball Parable.
Larry Ellis
I am very much attracted to Jane Austen's England. Not great place for most folks, but if I could be someone like Mr. Knightly - you know, have a great estate and plenty of income, well, that would be kind of fun, I think.
Larry Ellis
You never know. I listen to music. Old, happy songs from my high-school and college days. That makes me remember. Classical music, too. And mellow jazz - Coltrane, and there are lots of others. And I read the Bible, particularly the Psalms. That almost always gets me thinking.
Larry Ellis
For Overtime I just thought about Pete Maravich and growing up in a basketball town.
Larry Ellis
I have a couple of new novels underway. You can read what I have written so far in one of them on the my blog "Out In The Country," on wordpress.
Larry Ellis
I've had no commercial success, so why would anyone listen to me on this one. I do remember some advice from CS Lewis that I think is well worth repeating "Never throw anything away!" He says that almost all of his books spent months or even years in a desk drawer before he pulled them out and finished them.
Larry Ellis
That's easy - the act of creation. It's what we're made for. It's the highest form of human activity.
Larry Ellis
No settled answer for this. Sometimes I just stop trying to write - stop trying to force it. Other times I just sit down (or stand up) and write a sentence, what ever comes into my mind at the moment, and then I go from there
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