Monday 27 October 2008

The Writer

"And you are a writer?
"Yes, when I write."
"And what do you write?"
"I write whatever I happen to be writing at the moment I am writing it."
"And what do you happen to be writing at the moment."
"This."
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

It thrills me to the bone to witness such confidence from a writer. Some imbeciles believe that the only writers are those who have published a novel through a major publishing house and who regularly appear in Sunday supplements with their hand resting on their chin saying writerly things. In fact, a writer is someone who believes in and is proud of the process of writing - and who actually writes.

28 October 2008 at 09:51
Anonymous said...

Thanks very much. Also the very notion that imaginative writing should have to flow into the form of the novel is a kind of tyranny. I doubt I could write a novel anyway, but whether I could or not, that kind of sustained form is anathema to my imagination/ personality, whatever.

28 October 2008 at 14:47

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