The Mistress of Books: Interview

“I grew up in a small, rural town near an apple orchard, woods, and fields, and I spent the vast majority of my childhood reading. I remember in 7th grade my best friend and I decided that we were going to read every book in the library (laughs). I think we read almost 120 books that year! And we also didn’t have cable TV at home. We had a television to watch movies but there was very little to do besides run around the woods and read, which now I’m really grateful for. And I’ve always loved reading, so I was never bored.

When I was in second grade, I got a journal and I really wanted to learn how to write in cursive so I could just fill all of the pages of the journal with cursive. And now I write in cursive and I have many journals like that, and I think about that sometimes (laughs)…”

Interview with Molli Sébrier of The Mistress of Books on the Parisian writing community, artistic lessons, and growing into our creativity.

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