Ask the Author: Mark Spano
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Mark Spano
I am blending ideas that I thought might go well together. The story is set in downtown Kansas City of my childhood, but the story itself is totally fictitious.
Mark Spano
Travel, reading, old memories, a million things give me ideas.
Mark Spano
I am presently working on a third novel in my Rich St. Pierre crime series.
Mark Spano
I'm seventy years old. I've been writing since my teens. I do it because I love it. I certainly could not have made my living at it. If you love it, keep doing it.
Mark Spano
For me, writing is like cooking. It's something I know how to do that produces a product I may share with others.
Mark Spano
I try to write something even if it's dreadful. Christopher Isherwood said that the function of a first draft was to shame one into writing better.
Mark Spano
I have a huge amount of time. I run out of good things to read.
Mark Spano
I would travel back in history and have a conversation with Marcel Proust.
Mark Spano
I'm reading Ka by Roberto Calasso. I want to read all of his books, but I'm busy writing a new book, and I'm doing a lot of research on it.
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