Will Nicholson
Will Nicholson
William Faust "Will" Nicholsonwas an American politician who served as the mayor of Denver, Colorado from 1955 to 1959...
thinking obsessive
I'm often called obsessive, but I don't think I am any more than anyone else.
book years fickle
I've never been a fast reader. I'm fickle; I don't finish books I start; I put a book aside for five, ten years and then take it up again.
character tv-shows feelings
Some TV shows are like really good novels in that there are enough episodes that you start to have your own feelings about how the characters should act. When the scriptwriters go slightly wrong, when they make the character make a left turn that he or she wouldn't do, you know enough about the characters to say, "No, that's not what she would do there. That's wrong." You can actually argue with a TV show in a way that you can't do as much with movie - you inhabit a TV show in the way you inhabit a novel.
writing poet essays
Many good poets are really essayists who write very short essays.
people want bother
When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry.
writing pseudonyms would-be
While I was writing I assumed it would be published under a pseudonym, and that liberated me: what I wrote was exactly what I wanted to read.
world novelists groups
For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.
sympathy voice may
The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own life, depends, in addition to the sense that it is argumentatively defensible, on the sense that someone like me, and someone I like, whose voice is audible and who is at least notionally in the same room with me, does or can possibly hold it to be compellingly true.
reading reality library
Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.
believe self names
As soon as you start doing that - changing things - it seems self-evident to me that you've entered the world of make-believe. If you pretend that it's true, and use your own name, you are misleading people. Fiction is looser and wilder and sometimes in the end more self-revealing, anyway.
girlfriend abdomen lovers
There is no good word for stomach; just as there is no good word for girlfriend. Stomach is to girlfriend as belly is to lover, and as abdomen is to consort, and as middle is to petite amie.
cases adulthood
In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark.
shy
I’ve always thought of myself as shy,
trying events simplify
In the novel, I can change things and simplify, and make events work towards whatever meanings I'm trying to get at more efficiently.