In his 2009 interview in
The Guardian, William Trevor, the great Irish novelist and short story writer said: “To me, writing is entirely mysterious. If I didn’t
believe it was a mystery, the whole thing wouldn’t be worthwhile.
I don’t know not just how something is going to end, but what the next
couple of lines are going to be.”
I discuss Trevor's novella,
My House in Umbria at
Women of Mystery today.