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I think the secret to success is a short-term outlook. so for example, i'm writing the next killing book now and i have to just make every chapter compelling, so i can't get too far ahead of it. i just stay in the present and then go over what i have to do.
My inspiration comes from that and so i wrote ‘killing jesus,’ because i think i was directed to write that.
I'm not writing a ph.d. dissertation.
A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. and i think what i'm writing is exactly that.
Every decade of my life i attempted to write a novel. but i had nothing to say. i was far too self-absorbed, and now i realize i was writing for others, so that they'd applaud me, see my genius, tell me how wonderful i am, or be jealous of my success.
I had to learn compassion. had to learn what it felt like to hate, and to forgive and to love and be loved. and to lose people close to me. had to feel deep loneliness and sorrow. and then i could write.
Writing is a kind of performing art, and i can't sit down to write unless i'm dressed. i don't mean dressed in a suit, but dressed well and comfortably and i have to be shaved and bathed.
Most difficult thing in the world, to write a play. do you know the story of shaw at the fabian society? h.g. welles said "i'm terribly sorry i've missed the last five meetings, i've been terribly busy, i'm engaged in writing a scientific pamphlet on the effects of radioactivity in 1984 and i've produced a novel, and various pieces of science fiction to do, and i've had a bit of personal trouble, and i had my copy to bring out for the newspaper." shaw leapt up and said, "i've not missed one meeting, and i have written a play!" hardest thing in the world. if it were easy they'd all be at it.
I write because i like to make things and the only things i am good at making things with are words.
I'll be 56 this year, i've got two kids, and i think it's probably time to go back to writing one-glove jokes.
The road to serfdom was written during wwii, and basically it's an anti-nazi, anti-communist thing, but also it's an anti-conservative and anti-labor-party thing aimed at the british. he was an austrian, writing in britain. and i feel like now, i guess, everybody pays lip service to libertarian - and, indeed, many conservative - ideas, and yet they keep moving forward with an increasingly bureaucratic state. it shows itself in all sorts of little ways.
I had really not been out of the united states much, except for mexico. i thought, "jesus christ, this [russia] is like a whole new world." instead of writing michael jackson one-glove jokes, all i had to do was go to these weird places and keep my eyes and ears open.
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