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A Picador Paperback Original How do great writers do it? From James M. Cain's hard-nosed observation that "writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational," to Joan Didion's account of how she composes a book--"I constantly... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Joan Didion: Add a description of this character.
- Werner Herzog
- Ernst Lubitsch
- Jack Gilbert
- T. S. Eliot
- Raymond Chandler
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Billy Wilder
- Mark Twain
- Robert Benchley
- Ken Kesey
- Dorothy Parker
- Henry James
- E. M. Forster
- Marianne Moore
- Jack Kerouac
- Franz Kafka
- Kurt Vonnegut
Quotes edit
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“I don't really like chitchat....It's very human, but if there's going to be talk I want it to be interesting....All of the things that people are shamed by or don't think they've succeeded in -- I don't want to know about that. I really like to meet people, to be with people, but I don't want to be chatting all the time. --Jack Gilbert, poet”
Setting & Locations edit
- New Yorker
- Central America
- Hollywood
- California
- England
- Paris
- Brazil
- Dresden
- London
- Chicago
- Miami
- Vietnam
- Pittsburgh
- Italy
- San Francisco
- Greece
- Paramount
- United States
- Africa
- Harvard
- Europe
- Saigon
- France
- Berkeley
- Madrid
- Germany
- Massachusetts
- Cambridge
- Rebecca West
- Indianapolis
- Vassar
- Russia
- Vogue
- Columbia
- Iowa
- Australia
- Rangoon
- Los Angeles
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Picador
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: October 17, 2006
ISBN: 978-0312361754
Page Count: 528
Publisher: Picador
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: October 17, 2006
ISBN: 978-0312361754
Page Count: 528
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 823.9109
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