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Core Self And True Path
Becoming more of who I am often seems to start with some kind of growing down, or a fortunate fall (that didn’t seem that fortunate at the time). It can feel more like a descent, and being stripped away of false wrappings (which i wouldn’t have minded holding onto). It ls like becoming naked(and even more transparent to myself), which is sometimes frightening. But it is entering into a ‘deepening’ like that can take us down into something more true about ourselves, and something more essential, and what really calls us(and our common human and spiritual struggle), which somehow makes us more connected to humanity.
— Jon Wilson
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Books were an escape from my childhood. My father drove me to them. Reading was an escape from that house and an escape from that life.
Life is one long suspense novel. Suspense is the constant of literary fiction. We don’t know what’s going to happen to us tomorrow, two hours from now, a week from now. I think I learned that from being a kid and never knowing if we would have a roof above our heads, or what my father would do when he came home drunk.
I would never have made it as a writer without my wife’s support. She said: “Look, you’re selling short stories and you’ve sold a couple of paperback novels. You’re not making a living at it, but I’ll support you for five years…
