Dorothy Parker i Paris Review
Jag hittar till Paris Review och deras "The DNA of Literature", där man planerar att publicera alla författarintervjuer som publicerats genom åren i tidskriften. 50-talet finns nu och 10 januari publiceras intervjuerna från 60-talet (med bland annat Borges, Kerouac, de Beauvoir, Singer, Pound och Nabokov). En särskilt rolig intervju är den med Dorothy Parker (PDF) från 1956:
"INTERVIEWER
Could I ask you som technical questions? How do you actually write out a story? Do you write out a draft and then go over it or what?
PARKER
It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and then write it sentence by sentence - no first draft. I can't write five words but that I change seven.
INTERVIEWER
How do you name your characters?
PARKER
The telephone book and from the obituary columns.
INTERVIEWER
Do you keep a notebook?
PARKER
I tried to keep one, but I never could remember where I put the damn thing. I always say I'm going to keep one tomorrow.
INTERVIEWER
How do you get the story down on paper?
PARKER
I write in longhand first, but I've lost it. I use two fingers on the typewriter. I think it's unkind of you to ask. I know so little about the typewriter that once I bought a new one because I couldn't change the ribbon on the one I had."
[...]
INTERVIEWER
Do you think economic security an advantage to the writer?
PARKER
Yes. Being in a garret doesn't do you any good unless you're som sort of a Keats. The people who lived and wrote well in the twenties were comfortable and easy living. They were able to find stories and novels, and good ones, in conflicts that came out of two million dollars a year, not a garret. As for me, I'd like to have money. And I'd like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that's too adorable, I'd rather have money. I hate almost all rich people, but I think I'd be a darling at it. At the moment, however, I like to think of Maurice Baring's remark: 'If you would know what the Lord God thinks of money, you have only to look at those to whom he gives it.' I realize that's not much help when the wolf comes scratching at the door, but it's a comfort."
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En guldgruva! .
Postad av: Bengt O. | januari 2, 2005 1:51 EM