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Raised by books

Posted on December 6, 2025 By Carl Bettis

If you’re an artist (in whatever media), what book from childhood shaped your art? For me it would be two, one forced on me and one chosen: the King James Bible, and Charles Finger’s Tales from Silver Lands. I have quarrels with both now, but they made my writing what it is.

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