Fiction by Miriam Clavir

You detected that my last post was about writing, trying to find a little literary humour in ageing. Here’s another quote from the same book review about art and ageing: I recently met a man in his seventies, a radiologist, who, once retired, spent all his time carving wood pieces of exceptional artistry. When did you begin to develop your skill in this hobby? I asked, expecting to hear that he was sixty or so. At sixteen, he said. And my hobby was being a radiologist.

On Ageing Quotes from Carol Tavris’ excellent review of several books on ageing, in the Times Literary Supplement, March 22, 2019: . . . it’s time to add, We’re old, we’re bold, behold!... As George S. Kaufman famously noted when he saw his fellow playwright S.N. Behrman in his office the morning after the latter’s farewell party, Ah, forgotten but not gone, eh?

P.D. James, as quoted in Shrewed, a wonderful book by the journalist Elizabeth Renzetti; in the interview P. D. James commented on the appeal of writing mysteries. No matter how difficult problems are in lifein your own life or in the life of a country or societyin the end they can always be solved, not by divine intervention or good luck, but by human intelligence, human courage, human perseverance

If you've had trouble accessing my short story, Time Flies, on-line in The Prairie Journal http://www.prairiejournal.org/stories.html here are the steps: - on the sidebar under 2018, click on Miriam Clavir - you get my bio - then go back to the sidebar and click on Time Flies, and you should get the whole story

The Prairie Journal has published one of my short stories on-line. A museum plays a major role, I have to admit. See Time Flies under my name at http://www.prairiejournal.org/stories.html

Writers on Writing: Ernest Hemingway, as quoted by Carlos Baker, 1952: All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you . . . And... When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. See more