Where (Timothy Findley)

Place affects any writer writing anywhere because you see the world from where you are. If it happens to be the country of your birth – which is to say, the country from which your whole root system is rising – then, of course, place has a doubly important role to play in how you see as a writer. Canada, and more specifically, southern Ontario, provides me with my vantage point. This is where I gain my view not only of other Canadians, but of other cultures, other terrain. I also see the past from here. And the future – if I’m looking. Place affects a writer’s voice because place is where a writer breathes.
Journeyman