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George Saunders on writing

December 24, 2015

Filed Under: Writers, Writing Tagged With: interviews, video

Nina Darnton’s “The Perfect Mother”

October 24, 2014

Here is a quick Q&A I did with Nina Darnton, whose novel The Perfect Mother launches November 29. If you liked Defending Jacob…

Filed Under: My Other Writing Tagged With: interviews, links

Brian Eno: Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm

May 20, 2014

Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm. The sense of “I really want to know how this turns out” will drive you on through many, many long nights of no results, whereas the feeling of “I think I ought to do this” dries up very quickly.

The big mistake is to wait for inspiration. It won’t come looking for you. It’s not so much creating something, I think, it’s noticing when something is starting to happen — noticing it and then building on it and saying, “Okay, that’s new, that hasn’t happened before. What does it mean? Where can I go with it?”

Filed Under: Creativity Tagged With: Brian Eno, interviews, video

David Lynch on Where Ideas Come From

May 9, 2014

We don’t do anything without an idea. So they’re beautiful gifts. And I always say, you desiring an idea is like a bait on a hook — you can pull them in. And if you catch an idea that you love, that’s a beautiful, beautiful day. And you write that idea down so you won’t forget it. And that idea that you caught might just be a fragment of the whole — whatever it is you’re working on — but now you have even more bait. Thinking about that small fragment — that little fish — will bring in more, and they’ll come in and they’ll hook on. And more and more come in, and pretty soon you might have a script — or a chair, or a painting, or an idea for a painting.

Via Brain Pickings

Filed Under: Creativity, Writing Tagged With: David Lynch, interviews, video

Updike on his early stories

March 31, 2014

Filed Under: Writers Tagged With: interviews, John Updike, video

Annie Lennox on Creativity

February 9, 2014

Filed Under: Creativity Tagged With: interviews, video

Valediction

January 7, 2013

Maurice Sendak’s final interview with Terry Gross on Fresh Air, in September 2011, animated by Christoph Niemann. Sendak died seven months later. (via The Dish)

Filed Under: Writers Tagged With: Fresh Air, interviews, Maurice Sendak, video

How Writers Write: Margaret Atwood

October 15, 2010

Filed Under: How Writers Write, Writing Tagged With: interviews, Margaret Atwood, video

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