Writing
When Almond began writing the novel, he felt that Erin should be the main character because she was the strongest and because he wanted to write from the point of view of a girl this time. Almond referred to the novel's opening line of,"My name is Erin Law" as a "bit of an homage" to the opening line of Moby Dick, "Call me Ishmael." The abandoned building in the novel was inspired by a real building located on a "sludgy river gully" near the Tyne, which has been turned into Seven Stories, an attraction that promotes literature.
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“Even in writing an annual report, the unconscious plays a role.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“The question mark is alright when it is all alone when it
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in decoration but connected with writing it is
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“Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred; also to choose such an opportunity for writing as it may be lawful to think what they will, and write what they think, which is a rare happiness of the time.”
—Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618)