Will Nicholson
Will Nicholson
William Faust "Will" Nicholsonwas an American politician who served as the mayor of Denver, Colorado from 1955 to 1959...
want apartment
I no longer want to live in an apartment furnished with forklifts and backhoes.
dry restaurants pens
Rarely do pens go dry in restaurants.
criticism want way
First, if you love the Kindle and it works for you, it isn't problematic, and you should ignore all my criticisms and read the way you want to read.
flow world wells
I don't do all that well in the writerly world. I'm happier being outside the flow.
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.
jobs confusion confusing
The job of the novel is to be true to the confusion, but not so confusing that you turn the reader off.
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.