imaginary friends – T E Shepherd https://shepline.com author | illustrator | digital designer Fri, 04 Aug 2017 20:36:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://shepline.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/cropped-shepline-white-on-green-square_512-32x32.jpg imaginary friends – T E Shepherd https://shepline.com 32 32 What can imaginary friends teach us? https://shepline.com/2017/07/30/what-can-imaginary-friends-teach-us/ https://shepline.com/2017/07/30/what-can-imaginary-friends-teach-us/#respond Sun, 30 Jul 2017 19:54:14 +0000 http://shepline.com/?p=15336 Imaginary Friends by Philip Pullman

This is a short volume, published both in celebration of Independent booksellers, and also as a teaser of the Dæmon Voices that is to follow later this year. A collection of essays about writing, this is just one.

Anyone who has read my own book, Mr Tumnal, will know that imaginary friends are a subject very close to my heart. This is an essay that reflects on the importance of stories to us – our imaginary friends, our source of comfort, and our source of learning.

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