Ask the Author: Baret Magarian
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Baret Magarian
I was on a coach going from London to Oxford if memory serves and I was thinking about the F.Scott Fitzgerald story Tender is the Night and something about the central relationship clicked in my mind and I married the idea of a fusion of two people - a simbiotic relationship - with the idea of a story that comes true. The two notions seemed to go together quite well ..
Baret Magarian
It's like waiting for a breeze, a particular shaft of light, it's like fishing, dreaming, preparing a meal. Writing is waiting, waiting, waiting for the thing, the idea unadorned and simple and beautiful. It's very mysterious, very magical.
Baret Magarian
I am currently procrastinating various ideas and projects: a novel set in the Mojave desert, a play about adult babies, a collection of short fiction..
Baret Magarian
My advice to aspiring writers is to carefully construct and wear at all time a metaphorical helmet to protect yourselves from all the knocks, blows and bruises that are inherent in this enterprise!
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