“The great difficulty of constructing a novel is that one has to maintain, at the same time, two radically different perspectives: the first that of the entirety, the book as it will be remembered by a reader who has long since finished it (and what a difficult point of view this is to adjudge, requiring […]
About writing
De kunst van niet-weten
Donald Barthelme was een van de meest vernieuwende Amerikaanse schrijvers. In ‘Not-knowing: essays and interviews’ schrijft hij over alles wat hem bezighoudt, van film tot architectuur, maar vooral ook over taal en over schrijven. Anders dan we soms geneigd zijn te denken geven beperkingen juist voedsel aan ons denken. En schrijven is de kunst van […]
Ian McEwan on Writing and Doubt
“Writing is almost like an extenuation of doubt. There is something profoundly foolish about sitting at a desk, conversing with these ghosts on the basis that other people will take you seriously. And some days it goes swimmingly and other days the same pages that mildly impressed you, turn to ashes. So the process of […]