My uncommon sense told me to write this book [Turn and blossom], even though I was in the … - Theodora Goss

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About every four years, someone says to me, 'I've got a friend who looks exactly like you. ' What can you say to this?

Theodora Goss

My uncommon sense told me to write this book [Turn and blossom], even though I was in the middle of making final revisions to my dissertation! Common sense would have said, finish the dissertation and get a good, solid academic position. But instead, I got to do something that no one else has done, because I don't think anyone has written a book quite like this one. And look at how beautiful it is!

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Now that The Thorn and the Blossom has come out and I'm done with my doctoral degree (yes, I'm finally Dr. Goss), I'm turning to longer projects.

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Jorge Luis Borges wrote a poem when he was in his 80s about one day writing the book that would justify him. This was long after he had become one of the great masters, a writer everyone looks up to and reveres. As artists, I don't think we ever see ourselves as done. We always think we're at the beginning. . .

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Art inspires me. Looking at art in a museum, listening to music, reading the works of other writers.

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So much work went into this book [ "The Thorn & The Blossom"] - you can probably tell from looking at the art and overall design.

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When we tell stories about things that are important - love, fear, beauty - we change the way people think about the world. Writers are, or should be, truth-tellers even when the stories themselves are fantasy.

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