IFOA Notes 6
Now Playing: Common - Come Close
Topic: Writing Outings
More notes and quotes from the International Festival of Author's

Jens Christian Grondahl
- Likes to look at time as images or our past intermingled with our present.
- Looking at someone versus how we relate to someone
- breaking away from your background and creating yourself, your own identity
- detail turns the banal into something that isn't
- you will never finish getting to know someone
- all moments are present in our minds
- discover what you can write and what you can't write

Nick Bantock
- works in a circle - he places everything on the floor or on a table and walks around it and asks, "what do I know what I want to do?" in my work/writing.
- those who wish to keep things from us
- duende - comes up through the soles of you feet - creative passion
- there is no pressure if you are doing what you are meant to do

Samrat Upadhyay
- how place influences us ; how we influence place
- dissolving physical and emotional boundaries

Andrew Pyper
- what are the ethical implications in gentleman-lyness
- sense of honour
- educated people who look 'just like us' doing the unthinkable
- Why should we care?

Guy Vanderhaeghe
- the illusion of authenticity.