Two gems from a recent New York Review of Books...
"When a writer is born into a family, the family is dead." ~ Czeslaw Milosz
"You must write as if your parents are dead." ~ Philip Roth (to Ian McEwan, who seems to have listened)
Ain't it the truth! Victoria
"When a writer is born into a family, the family is dead." ~ Czeslaw Milosz
"You must write as if your parents are dead." ~ Philip Roth (to Ian McEwan, who seems to have listened)
Ain't it the truth! Victoria
posted by Seven Authors in A Private Conversation at 11:07 PM
1 Comments:
Hitchens said, "Write posthumously," which is an extreme variation on the theme.
Amy
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