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Jane Eyre, as by Irvine Welsh, by Me
There wis no possibility ay taking a walk thit day. It were pissin wi rain thit further outdoor bummin aroond wis now oot ay the fuckin question. Ah wis glad ay it: Ah nivir liked long walks, especially in the fuckin cold: dreadful tae me wis the coming home in the raw twilight, wi frozen […]
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The Writers’ Madness
Terry Pratchett: My wife wrote a little letter to the doctor saying, ‘You have to understand that an author in the throws of writing a book, which in Terry’s case means permanently, is in the throws of some kind of madness. They will become vague, preoccupied, they will look through you into the distance, they […]
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On writing
From a mail I sent a while ago: You know, I know quite a few writers who can’t write. I don’t mean people who want to write, or people who’d like to be writers. I don’t mean those that just think they are, or are willing but unable. (That ten to the dozen.) I mean, […]
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Philip Roth: The writer as a perennial apprentice
Philip Roth, regarded as America’s greatest living novelist, on writing: ‘You’re always lost at the beginning. You may be so lost you don’t even know what you’re going to write about. But even when you discover what you’re going to write about, you don’t know how you’re going to go about writing it. The sentences […]