Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite and those who have more appetite than dinners.
Nature never said to me: Do not be poor still less did she say: Be rich her...
The whole system of society tells you what to do.
The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known using that as scaffolding and then letting imagination build the structure that fills in those things we can never find out for sure.
