Shattering my dream of being a novelist

Lauren Nolan
Nov 8 · 4 min read
Leonid Pasternak’s painting “The Throes of Creation” (WIKIMEDIA COMMONS)

I have wanted to write novels for as long as I can remember. Books have always been a monumental part of my life as a reader, a collector, and an aspiring author. I read Steinbeck and am in awe of how he so beautifully scratches beneath the surface of what it means to be human. His prose is clean and powerful, and his stories seep into your bones where they make a forever home.

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Lauren Nolan

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Books, tea, tarot, wilderness, herbalism, literary criticism, Grand Designs, analogue, making potions, art - just a few of my favourite things.

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