Ask the Author: Alexander Tilney
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Alexander Tilney
I tried to write about **anything** else, and this book wouldn't let me do that.
Alexander Tilney
I just write every day. The more I go after inspiration, the more I seem to piss it off, so I just put in time at my desk and I don't look any further.
Alexander Tilney
I'm too superstitious to talk about it. Even typing this is saying too much.
Alexander Tilney
Go toward the discomfort and then try to find the pleasure there.
Alexander Tilney
The pleasure of unexpected things happening. When you are in the trance of the story and a detail emerges--the weight of the payphone receiver, a surprising testy joke from a character--the whole world of the book feels alive. It's worth the pain getting there.
Alexander Tilney
I look for the situation that's making me the most uncomfortable. If I definitely, definitely don't want to write about it, that's where the juice is.
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