Writers say two things that strike me as nonsense. One is that you must follow an absolute schedule everyday. If you're not writing well, why continue it? I just don't think this grinding away is useful.
タグ: writing

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I changed my writing style deliberately. My first two novels were written in a very self-consciously literary way. After I embraced gay subject matter, which was then new, I didn't want to stand in its way. I wanted to make the style as transparent as possible so I could get on with it and tell the story, which was inherently interesting.
タグ: gay, new, matter, style
The first version of The Beautiful Room Is Empty was the first mss. I'd ever submitted to New York editors.
タグ: first, empty, new, beautiful
A straight writer can write a gay novel and not worry about it, and a gay novelist can write about straight people.
タグ: about, worry, gay, people
I think I'm very stoic. Death and dying are things that I'm used to.
タグ: dying, things, think, death
In the middle of my sophomore year, I was sent to boarding school, at the Cranbrook School for boys, in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where I fell in love with Marilyn Monroe. I knew that she was the most beautiful woman in the world, and yet she was in pain, in need. She was unhappy. I believed that I could help her.
タグ: pain, world, beautiful, love
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