Stuff
Terry Mort Revealed
Revealing Questions
- Q. How would you describe your life in only 8 words?
- A. Fortunate, knock on wood. Four other words optional.
- Q. What is your motto or maxim?
- A. Form and content.
- Q. How would you describe perfect happiness?
- A. Unlikely. To paraphrase Voltaire, perfection is the enemy of the good.
- Q. What’s your greatest fear?
- A. medical problems
- Q. If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would you choose to be?
- A. Depends on the season -- autumn, Maine; winter Arizona, spring and summer, Colorado
- Q. Which living person do you most admire?
- A. That will take some time to consider.
- Q. What do you regret most?
- A. My regrets are regrets of omission and there may be time to remedy them; therefore, I won't be specific.
- Q. If you could acquire any talent, what would it be?
- A. painting
- Q. What’s your best quality?
- A. sense of humor
- Q. Who is your favorite fictional hero?
- A. Huck Finn
- Q. What is your favorite occupation, when you’re not writing?
- A. fly fishing
- Q. What’s your fantasy profession?
- A. writing
- Q. What 3 personal qualities are most important to you?
- A. dependability, sense of humor, intelligence
- Q. If you could eat only one thing for the rest of your days, what would it be?
- A. chili
- Q. What are your 5 favorite songs?
- A. Making Believe, Girl from the North Country, If I Needed You, Who Knows Where the Time Goes,The Song of the Wandering Aengus
On Books and Writing
- Q. Who are your favorite authors?
- A. Mark Twain, PG Wodehouse, Anthony Trollope, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Evelyn Waugh, Ernest Hemingway, Anthony Powell, George MacDonald Fraser, Shelby Foote, CS Forester, Patrick O'Brian, Willa Cather, Francis Parkman
- Q. What are your 5 favorite books of all time?
- A. Huckleberry Finn, Barchester Towers, The Great Gatsby, A Farewell to Arms, The Wind in the Willows
- Q. Is there a book you love to reread?
- A. Huckleberry Finn
- Q. Do you have one sentence of advice for new writers?
- A. Your greatest joy will come from writing well; the rest of the publishing business is not all that different from any other business except that it generally pays less.
- Q. How did you come to write Hemingway Patrols?
- A. A confluence of interests -- Hemingway, the art of fiction, naval history and WW2 history in particular.
