Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course of questioning a 16-year-old suspect charged with stealing an automobile, Judge Samuel Leibowitz of New York City's Kings County (Brooklyn) Court discovered something about U.S. education that left him "speechless." Though the boy could spell both "dog" and "cat" orally, he could not write either. As a matter of fact, he could not write at all. Had he never been to school? Yes, indeed-he had had three terms of high school. "This," said the judge, "is unbelievable...
...confess honestly that A Fable [his latest novel, TIME, Aug. 2] does not please me. It took nine years to write that book and I once tore up its first version. "Generally I don't read my countrymen's books. In fact, I read little. At my age [56], I prefer to read Flaubert, Balzac, Cervantes' Don Quixote and the Bible . . . The few times I tried to read Truman Capote, I had to give up . . . His literature makes me nervous...
...necessarily have a system to work. Normally I write at any time, but for me expression comes easier when it is hot, or precisely during summertime when the blood boils in my veins, or during sleepless nights when I work until early morning. I always carry pencil and paper with me, since at certain moments on the saddle of a horse or leaning on a fence, I proceed with work under...
...Failure brings me stimulation to try to do better in each new book. I have something to say, but I know I will not have time to write all the books I want. I hope to write three or four more . . . I am happy to be a novelist, but I would like to be a poet. In fact, I am a frustrated poet...
...Realm of the Senses. Having lived under wraps so long, Colette went straight onto the music-hall stage, where she threw off the wraps with a vengeance. In mimes and dances she displayed "[first] her uplifted bosom, and then the whole of her harmonious nudity." But she continued to write, too, and her subject matter was as nude as her mimes. The world of the senses became Colette's special province, and she proceeded to map it with audacious knowingness...