Wayson Choy
Whenever I receive an envelope from the PLR, I’m assured my books are being circulated. I’m overjoyed and imagine that a yearning-to-be writer had just finished reading Paper Shadows or The Jade Peony, and feverishly felt – as in my teens I once did after reading Bonjour Tristesse, East of Eden, and The Good Earth – I can do that, and begins his or her lifetime work.
Text taken from « Writer’s Testimonials about the Public Lending Right » compiled by The Writer’s Union of Canada on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Public Lending Right Commisison (2011)
