(1924–1984)
U.S. writer“Never demean yourself by talking back to a critic, never. Write those letters to the editor in your head, but don’t put them on paper.”
more infosource: The Paris Review Interviews, vol. I (New York: Picador, 2006), 33.
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category: advice, critic, demean, editor, writer
medium: interview
notes: Originally published in Issue 16 of The Paris Review, 1957.
“I am a completely horizontal author. I can’t think unless I’m lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I’ve got to be puffing and sipping. As the afternoon wears on, I shift from coffee to mint tea to sherry to martinis.”
more infosource: The Paris Review Interviews, vol. I (New York: Picador, 2006), 28.
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category: alcohol, cigarette, coffee, creativity, habit, horizontal, routine, writing
medium: interview
notes: Originally published in Issue 16 of The Paris Review, 1957.
“The test of whether or not a writer has divined the natural shape of his story is just this: After reading it, can you imagine it differently, or does it silence your imagination and seem to you absolute and final? As an orange is final. As an orange is something nature has made just right.”
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Truman Capote