Ink and Paper: Insights and Thoughts on Writing: Facts, Illusions, and Myths

Discussing reading and writing is both a difficult and an easy task, both mellow and rough. The difficulty does not lie in the topic or idea of a text, rather in the public’s rejection of advice when it comes to reading and writing. This could be due to how chaotic this advice sometimes is: it has become its own field of fatwas, teaching, and invocation. Few read and many advise. Many write and few master.

This book contains the library news and authors’ stories that have been kept away: the most important sayings of writers, strange and unique books, what burned and what was burned, what has been destroyed and what has sunk – about two hundred short stories and over two hundred valuable sayings. But do not think that after reading this book you will become a good writer or experienced reader yourself; what I do guarantee is that you will have learned important things about reading and writing that come from real life, experience, and history. You will be better equipped to distinguish fact from illusion and myth, and in that moment of consciousness you will know that you are on the way to becoming a great reader and writer.