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Interviews with Great Writers

  • 22-07-2010 12:55pm
    #1
    cobsie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 223 ✭✭


    Here's a link to The Paris Review, which has hundreds of interviews with established writers, starting in the 1950s up to the present day. It's a great resource. I think reading about the process of writing from famous writers can be really instructive and encouraging.

    Plus, the Review has loads of great contemporary fiction, short stories and extracts from novels, available for free online. Check it out! :)


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  • #2
    dawvee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 122 ✭✭dawvee


    Thanks for that! There's a ton of interesting stuff in there, I'm just reading the interview with T.S. Eliot now.


  • #3
    jackthelad321
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 397 ✭✭jackthelad321


    Just reading Banville's interview 2009. Fantastic. This will no doubt help me greatly with my stories. I see your a busy man in creative writing. you are a man, right?!

    thanks for this anyway

    Edit: this might actually be the difference in me giving up my hobbie and becoming more addicted to it! It's like some beautiful treasure trove so beautiful you can't even describe how beautiful it actually is, like stumbling on a rock that turns out to be the top of a goldmine... ahh... that last sentence started out much better, i promise you.


  • #4
    cobsie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 223 ✭✭cobsie


    jackthelad321 wrote: »
    I see your a busy man in creative writing. you are a man, right?!

    Ha! I'm afraid I can't reveal my mild-mannered alter ego :)

    I've been on the boards a lot lately because I'm between stories...once I start on the next one, which is percolating in my brain at the min, I won't have a second to spare...which may be a relief to some!

    cheers!


  • #5
    cobsie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 223 ✭✭cobsie


    Hmm, not quite sure what you mean here...I personally didn't collect any of these interviews, this is the Paris Review :)

    I look at lots of mainstream news sites and tend to follow links in their culture sections: guardian, irish times, bbc, new york times, etc. I also read in hard copy things like granta, paris review and the new yorker. I stick with these because the quality and diversity of the authors is guaranteed, and the standard of journalism and interviews is high. It suits my taste, and the time I have available, in other words :)


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