George Szanto is a novelist and essayist, currently living on Gabriola Island, BC. A former McGill University professor, he is the author of over a dozen works of fiction and non-fiction.
A couple of basic beliefs about writing:
You only start to learn to write
after you've thrown away
your first million words.And, from Samuel Beckett,
"To find a form to accomodate the mess,
that is the job of the artist now."