Monday, July 20, 2009

The Author in Her Habitat



a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PddQ8xLinAc/SljG9emsDfI/AAAAAAAAG9s/N8Uhuw9jtMw/s1600-h/roxana+robinson+from+the+nyt.jpg"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 114px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PddQ8xLinAc/SljG9emsDfI/AAAAAAAAG9s/N8Uhuw9jtMw/s200/roxana+robinson+from+the+nyt.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357250516246859250" border="0" //aspan style="font-style: italic;"/spanblockquotespan style="font-style: italic;"I did everything but write in that room ... I paid bills. I printed things out. I sent faxes. I was connected to the Internet. ... The assumption is that writers can write wherever they can sit down ... But the main thing you need as a writer is a sense of certainty that you won’t be interrupted./span/blockquoteNovelist a href="http://www.roxanarobinson.com/"Roxana Robinson/a, a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/realestate/12habi.html?_r=1amp;ref=books"talks about her personal writing space/a in span style="font-style: italic;"The New York Times/span, and explains why she abandoned her book-lined study for a more austere working environment.br /br /And she isn't alone, she says, in seeking a space away from distractions. As she points out :br /span style="font-style: italic;"/spanblockquotespan style="font-style: italic;"Raymond Carver ... claimed that he wrote his short stories in the front seat of his car. Ernest Hemingway holed up above a sawmill in Paris. When the essayist Annie Dillard wrote in a college library, she found the comings and goings in the parking lot outside her window so distracting that she drew a sketch of it, closed the Venetian blinds, and taped the sketch onto the blinds./span/blockquoteMany more writers' room a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/series/writersrooms"at span style="font-style: italic;"The Guardian/span/a.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7912730-6236442336901159152?l=thebookaholic.blogspot.com'//div

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