Zitat des Tages von Chad Harbach:
There are things you do when you're writing that are so fun to do it's almost like they're private jokes that are amusing to you but no one else is going to enjoy them nearly as much and you worry you're going to have to take them out in the end.
You know, it's sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections don't make money.
Reading 'Moby-Dick' was really a sort of transformative literary experience for me.
The novel has always been the form that incorporates other forms. For me, it has always been the ultimate medium.
I think people have the wrong idea of 'Moby Dick' as this somber, boring thing.
It's quite a feeling to finish something you have been 10 years beholden to and to have a clean slate.
I mean, first, almost all writers these days teach because they don't make enough money publishing to live on, to support themselves - people like Tobias Wolff, Anne Beattie, Amy Hempel, Stuart Dybek; a lot of short story writers, for one thing.
Tall people have a real advantage in the world.
Writing on a computer feels like a recipe for writer's block. I can type so fast that I run out of thoughts, and then I sit there and look at the words on the screen, and move them around, and never get anywhere. Whereas in a notebook I just keep plodding along, slowly, accumulating sentences, sometimes even surprising myself.
To my parents, writing seemed precarious and not the best idea.
There's certainly a large literature around baseball in the U.S.
When I write for 'n+1,' I begin by doing a lot of reading, to try to convince myself I'm not stupid. Then I scribble down a paragraph here, a paragraph there, when a notion strikes. Then I see if I can arrange those notions in a way that yields an argument.
