Ask the Author: Garry Craig Powell
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Garry Craig Powell
To the eighteenth-century England of Tom Jones. Risky though it was, it was also tremendous fun. I would join Tom in his picaresque adventures, and help him against his enemies. I could be very handy in a sword fight.
Garry Craig Powell
Why a woman I loved and always treated like a queen left me, very suddenly, without warning, and next to no explanation.
Garry Craig Powell
Iain McGilchrist, The Matter with Things; Nietzsche, The Gay Science, Beyond Good and Evil, Human, All Too Human; Goethe, Faust; some more Michel Houllebecq; and maybe a return to Proust. Nothing light or beachy!
Garry Craig Powell
Only one? The delight of dancing with language; the realization of dreams and visions; the pleasure of research; the joy of knowing that your work has touched readers deeply; the sense that one is making sense of one's life, that one is in dialogue with the past and the future.
Garry Craig Powell
Ignore it and write anyway. Anyone can write badly. It's the judge in the head that creates the block. So start writing badly and then revise until the work is good.
Garry Craig Powell
By reading. I knew I wanted to be a writer when I finished reading Wuthering Heights when I was 16--perhaps unusually, for a boy.
Garry Craig Powell
Read a lot and very widely. If you're American, don't just read Americans! It's essential to read people from other cultures. Write every day. Don't do an MFA degree unless you can do so without getting into debt.
Garry Craig Powell
A novel about the Italian poet, playboy, war hero and proto-fascist statesman Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863 - 1938). In fact it's done.
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