I am curious about most everything, including where do writers get their ideas? Truman Capote is a favorite author of mine and I continue to ask myself: “Did Truman just know more interesting people that I know—where did he find the people he wrote about, who inhabit his stories?” OR was it just that the power of his imagination was greater than mine? I will never know the answer to that question, but I suspect it is the later. Let me share with you an anecdote from another one of my favorite authors about where he gets his ideas. Tim Wynne-Jones said: “A crow likes to steal shiny bits of the world and hoard them away in its nest: pull tabs, gum wrappers, bread ties, rings. Writers are like crows. They call their nests stories.”
