H. R. Hess

H. R. Hess is a fiction writer who is passionate about the power of story.

This image is an ideal of how I write … usually I’m sprawled over my sofa with my papers in disorganised heaps, scrambling for the pen I had five minutes ago. The coffee is accurate though. And the cat. (And yes, I did treat myself to a very geeky ‘feather’ pen which I spotted in a supermarket).


It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.

Lois Lowry

Some day, you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

C. S. Lewis

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