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Bezig met laden... Raymond Chandler Speakingdoor Raymond Chandler
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.  bringbackbooks | Jun 16, 2020 |   1949 I'm always seeing little pieces by writers about how they don't ever wait for inspiration; they just sit down at their little desks every morning at eight, rain or shine, hangover and broken arm and all, and bang out their little stint. However blank their minds or dull their wits , no nonsense about inspiration from them. I offer them my admiration and take care to avoid their books. -------------------- 1948 to Edward Weeks, editor of the Atlantic Monthly ...would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois which is something like the way a Swiss waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split, and when I interrupt the velvety smoothness of my more or less literate syntax with a few sudden words of bar-room vernacular, that is done with the eyes wide open and the mind relaxed but attentive. ------------------- Written in 1957 to a woman two and a half years after the death of his wife. 'I wasn't faithful to my wife - ' Stop! He should have stopped right there. Six truthful words. Instead of which what he actually wrote was: 'I wasn't faithful to my wife out of principle but because she was completely adorable, and the urge to stray which afflicts many men at a certain age, because they think they have been missing a lot of beautiful girls, never touched me. I already had perfection.' Sigh. This would have been so much better if we didn't all know he spent his whole married life shagging whatever was about. bringbackbooks | Jun 16, 2020 | 1949 I'm always seeing little pieces by writers about how they don't ever wait for inspiration; they just sit down at their little desks every morning at eight, rain or shine, hangover and broken arm and all, and bang out their little stint. However blank their minds or dull their wits , no nonsense about inspiration from them. I offer them my admiration and take care to avoid their books. -------------------- 1948 to Edward Weeks, editor of the Atlantic Monthly ...would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois which is something like the way a Swiss waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split, and when I interrupt the velvety smoothness of my more or less literate syntax with a few sudden words of bar-room vernacular, that is done with the eyes wide open and the mind relaxed but attentive. ------------------- Written in 1957 to a woman two and a half years after the death of his wife. 'I wasn't faithful to my wife - ' Stop! He should have stopped right there. Six truthful words. Instead of which what he actually wrote was: 'I wasn't faithful to my wife out of principle but because she was completely adorable, and the urge to stray which afflicts many men at a certain age, because they think they have been missing a lot of beautiful girls, never touched me. I already had perfection.' Sigh. This would have been so much better if we didn't all know he spent his whole married life shagging whatever was about. 1  bringbackbooks | Jun 16, 2020 |  pszolovits | Feb 3, 2021 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Tough-minded and typically idiosyncratic, here is Chandler on Chandler, the mystery novel, writing, Hollywood, TV, publishing, cats, and famous crimes. This skillfully edited selection of letters, articles, and notes also includes the short story "A Couple of Writers" and the first chapters of Chandler's last Philip Marlowe novel, The Poodle Springs Story, left unfinished at his death. Paul Skenazy has provided a new introduction for this edition as well as a new selected bibliography. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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 Google Books — Bezig met laden...GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.52Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1900-1944LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde: (4.02)
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I'm always seeing little pieces by writers about how they don't ever wait for inspiration; they just sit down at their little desks every morning at eight, rain or shine, hangover and broken arm and all, and bang out their little stint. However blank their minds or dull their wits , no nonsense about inspiration from them. I offer them my admiration and take care to avoid their books.
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1948 to Edward Weeks, editor of the Atlantic Monthly
...would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois which is something like the way a Swiss waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split, and when I interrupt the velvety smoothness of my more or less literate syntax with a few sudden words of bar-room vernacular, that is done with the eyes wide open and the mind relaxed but attentive.
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Written in 1957 to a woman two and a half years after the death of his wife.
'I wasn't faithful to my wife - '
Stop! He should have stopped right there. Six truthful words. Instead of which what he actually wrote was:
'I wasn't faithful to my wife out of principle but because she was completely adorable, and the urge to stray which afflicts many men at a certain age, because they think they have been missing a lot of beautiful girls, never touched me. I already had perfection.'
Sigh. This would have been so much better if we didn't all know he spent his whole married life shagging whatever was about.