The author reflects on their reading journey, starting with 'My Side of the Mountain' at age nine, which sparked a fascination with solitude and nature. At eleven, two pivotal novels, 'Animal Farm' and 'The Old Man and the Sea,' fueled the desire to write, emphasizing the link between imitation and inspiration in literature. The author accounts for their teenage transformation through 'The Pound Era' by Hugh Kenner, which reshaped their understanding of literature. Eventually, the impact of James Joyce's 'Ulysses' further deepened their appreciation for modernist complexity and narrative.
James Joyce's Ulysses opened my eyes to the complexity of narrative and character, deepening my appreciation for modernist literature.
The desire to be a writer is essentially the desire to imitate, to recreate the effect that other people's writing has had on you.
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