“I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.”

– Ernest Hemingway, American Nobel Prize winning novelist

“When did you know that you wanted to be a writer?”

I was being interviewed for a magazine article – a story about radio copy writers. I had to think about the question for a few moments. As far back as I could remember I had always enjoyed the written word. I suppose that enjoyment went back to my childhood when mother read stories to my brother and me each night before bedtime. My mother loved books – devoured them, figuratively – and still does to this day. Before I could read or...

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