I think it’s an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partisan one.
I think it’s an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partisan one.
James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can.
I wrote two plotted books, got some of the fundamentals of storytelling down, then… it’s sort of like taking the training wheels off, trying to write a book that’s fun in the same way without relying on quite such mechanical or external beats.
Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny – an experience I’ve never had in America!
I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.
The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.
I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you’re actually sitting down putting words to the paper.
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