They have taught much about the use of language. Edgar Rice Burrough's book on Tarzan. Homer's Odyssey 6. Homer, Dante, Rimbaud, de Nerval, Valey, Pound, Borges, Char, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Michaux, Faz, the Surrealists, the Symbolists mainly. The best thing about being a writer is having the opportunity, and privilege, of occupying an imaginative space at a time when people are chained to the calculative experience.
True freedom lies in thought.
Writing is a vocation and a responsibility. The worst thing about being a writer is not knowing whether one is up to the ideas one has chose to explore. Ideas represent risk. When not writing I travel to explore new ideas. I enjoy European art galleries, giving lectures, participating in intellectual forums.