The lump in the throat

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The Fairfield Review, An On-line Literary Magazine for the Global Community.

"... novels, for me, start-- as Robert Frost said his poems did-- with a lump in the throat. I don't start with a theological axe to grind, but with a deep , wordless feeling for some aspect of my own experience that has moved me. Then, out of the shadows, a handful of characters starts to emerge, then the various possible relationships between them, then a setting maybe, and lastly, out of those relationships, the semblance at least of a plot." --Frederick Buechner