Heather Sellers in her book "Page by Page" talks about the reservoir of ideas, impressions, information, bits of dialogue and other fragments the writer carries around in his or her head, as a "compost heap." She makes the point that even when writers are not working, they are are adding to the "compost heap." I have no idea how the information and impressions from this book are going to be important later on, or if I will indeed ever draw upon them and use them in my own writing, but I sure loved the book. It's one of those books you read even when you are supposed to be doing other things, the kind of book you can't wait to get back to, the kind of book you stay up late to finish.
The book is "The Age of Shiva by Manil Suri.
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