recovering economist
Writers talking can be dull, I get it.
You want the fretted over prose – not the extemporaneous grasps at public discourse.
But maybe you just haven’t heard this keynote my Anne Lamott .
Of course, she probably wrote it first, so who knows!
I like to read what writers write but am rarely in the mood to listen to them yap.
-Larry McMurtry, Literary Life (Amazon)
Seriously though.
This is so good:
Forget the critical marketplace of establishment taste-makers, I say.
I mean sure, you can smile and be appreciative if they acknowledge you – and take their money if they make you a deal – but you don’t have to create for them anymore.
For technology has passed them by.
I get it though – commercial success or not – it’s nice to be noticed by your peers.
Should I be bitter about the literary establishment’s long disinterest in me? I shouldn’t, and mostly I’m not, though I do admit to the occasional moment of irritation. Any writer with much self-respect would feel a twinge of annoyance at the inequalities of the critical marketplace.
-Larry McMurtry, Literary Life (Amazon)