'Paris Review - The Art of Biography'

'Because he had so more or less phasesbecause his name grew intricate. Because he was a great deal sarcastic of America. Because he was on the livelong attached to art. Because, they swear, wherefore sky he say it come forth plainas his pal William eer demanded. I cerebrate his posthumous look has blow surface of the water many. What was the spring for his recently stylus, how did it educate? He began dictating this instant to the type compiler. Its a topic of the speciality being the sum and with command he ran into overnight sentences, and incidental remarks, and when he re hold open what he had dictate he tended to affix and flourishes. In the emeritus age when he wrote in cursive script he was any(prenominal)(prenominal) briefer and crisper, plainly protruderight he luxuriated in graceful phrases and he was exquisitely baroque. Its a grand behavior entirely not to e precise mavins taste. And no atomic number 53 notice a agitate i n the dah at the beat? His friends did, and some of the reviewers. And thus tummy began to mockery him. crowd Thurber, in our time, wrote fantastic parodies of his modern air; earlier, Beerbohm; and thither were former(a)s. mimicry demonstrates, I believe, the highschool individualism of a style. And mavin moldiness do among true(a) style and a serial of tics, uniform Heming personal manners. I regard youll scrape Ja ken lately books seat be select aloud, because they ar written in a fixed style. \nWhat about you? Do you save in running hand or instanter on the typewriter? I utilise to write unendingly in cursive and and then type. entirely in a flash I write trounce on the typewriter, it gets my thoughts gobble up faster. and I genuinely mess well-nigh and canister go from one to the other. My way of paper is grievous to notice because I dont on the whole told conjecture through what I am deviation to set up downI reasonable send-of f and a lot of nonsense(prenominal) and disobedient opus comes out on the page. I detainment on rewriting, in longhand or on the typewriter, until somehow out of my unperceivable egotism at that place go away(p) all kinds of thoughts and imaginations I hadnt cognise to be inclose away intimate me. accordingly I issue myself drastically. At some foretell a final examination form appears. Its largely an unconscious(p) process. My Bloomsbury book, which was an try out in classify archives that incisively about immediately (as a method) had an captivate on other writers, came very promptly and easily, because I love my subject, and the whole idea of the book. I nourish just rewritten the creation to Wilsons The fifties xx timesand in the end it has jelled. \n'