The Long Road to Forgive me Not
George Orwell is most famous for 1984, his dystopian novel, but he also is known for having said “All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one was not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”
My writer’s “career” began when I was just seven years old, as I was relishing a storybook life in the south of France. For reasons I cannot recall after seven decades, I wrote a short story about a young French girl who emigrated to America with her parents. Three years later my parents went to America, leaving my sister and me with relatives for ten months.
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