There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man
that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
--seen on a tombstone in England
The same could be said about reading a book. This was brought home to me by a book published in 1932 by Vita Sackville-West. I was familiar with Vita Sackville-West because Susan Branch visited Sissinghurst in May 2012 and wrote about it in her book "A Fine Romance." She also blogged about it HERE. This led me in June that year to read Vita's son's book about his parents, "Portrait of a Marriage," and her grandson's book, "Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History."
