Category: Writing
One probably shouldn’t sit at the keyboard at four in the morning but, as you age sometimes these early mornings creep up, and it’s not because you have to be on set by six, it’s because your hormones are doing their last dance, the last fling in the mosh pit…
INTERVIEWER Can working for the movies hurt your own writing? FAULKNER Nothing can injure a man’s writing if he’s a first-rate writer. If a man is not a first-rate writer, there’s not anything can help it much. The problem does not apply if he is not first rate because he…
INTERVIEWER Is emotional stability necessary to write well? You told me once that you could only write well when you were in love. Could you expound on that a bit more? HEMINGWAY What a question. But full marks for trying. You can write any time people will leave you alone…
INTERVIEWER You have said elsewhere that the authors you have learned most from were Jane Austen and Proust. What did you learn from Jane Austen technically? FORSTER I learned the possibilities of domestic humor. I was more ambitious than she was, of course; I tried to hitch it on to…