Goodreads asked Robert Earle:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Robert Earle For the last year or so I've been concentrating on short fiction. I get my ideas most frequently from dreams, sometimes truncated into phrases. The phrase that appeared yesterday morning was, "The first man I loved was his father." The second source of ideas comes from what people tell me about their lives. Third, I reflect on my own life and reading. At the moment I'm asking myself questions about what makes Borges's short stories so effective and whether it makes sense to undertake a novel about the Roman philosopher Seneca.

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