Returning to his home town in South Carolina, the writer reflects on aspects of his youth, beginning with the woman he almost married.

A writer describes and reflects on the creative process.

A writer reflects his society by getting one's language right.

Here, the Telegraph's leading writers reflect on what they would have told themselves, if only they'd listen.

But perhaps no writer reflected his environment more than Long Island's first widely published author, Walt Whitman.

She will also add several shorter features, including a column in which a writer will reflect on a book he first read before the age of 25.

The writers and artists of his time reflected a nearly universal pessimism.

Many writers reflected the horrible experiences of the Thirty Years' War, in poetry and prose.

The writer is looking into the future and seeing that the young man will probably outlive him and is reflecting upon that.

A British writer reflects on life with an elegant friend.