(To respond to the following questions, simply place a ‘Y’ or ‘N’ [ indicating yes or
no] following the question unless you wish to elaborate.) [ Same questions for each
group of respondents.]
When you were a child did you:
(a) Have very vivid dreams?
(b) Relish the time you had alone to yourself?
(c) Day dream quite often?
(d) Feel especially fond of reading or listening to fairy tales?
(e) Have a very vivid imagination?
(f) Often find yourself absorbed in your own world?
(g) Enjoy reading books about other times and other countries?
(h) Spend a lot of your time in a world of self-created fantasy?
Question 12.
What personal satisfaction do you think a writer or poet of serious literature gains
from the act of writing?
[ The same question was asked of each respondent group.]
Question 13.
What relationship, if any, do you think exists between the act of reading and an
awareness that comes from beyond one’s own personal knowledge base or
consciousness?
[ Readers were asked the same question, writers were asked: What relationship, if
any, do you think exists between the act of creative writing and an awareness which
comes from beyond the writer’s personal knowledge base or consciousness?]
Question 14.
I n reading a work of fiction, is your imagination involved, and if so, to what extent
and in what ways?
[ Readers were asked the same question, writers were asked: Do you believe that
writing, or more specifically the type of literature that you write, has shaped your
interior world and, if you agree, can you state how important your interior life is as
a result of this?]
Question 15.
Do you think that the reader of a work of literature is part of the writer’s creative
fantasy?
[ Readers were asked the same question, writers were asked: When you are in the
act of writing, are your imagined or potential future readers a part of your fantasy?]
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