Ask the Author: Andrew Chapman
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Andrew Chapman
The desire to leave behind an impression of my personality so that when I'm gone (hopefully many years from now) my daughter can look in my books and say, "There you are, Dad."
Andrew Chapman
A strange book called The Conversationalist. It's an experiment in comedy writing. It is dark. The main character, a school child (written from his point of view) does terrible things but will hopefully retain sympathy. There is tragedy, and somewhere, lurking in the prose of this disturbed child, is humour.
Andrew Chapman
Read a lot, live a lot, cut out all the boring shit, learn how to show, never tell.
Live by Nietzsche's quote, "Leave nothing to death but a burned out castle", and you will always have something to write about.
Live by Nietzsche's quote, "Leave nothing to death but a burned out castle", and you will always have something to write about.
Andrew Chapman
Frustration and poverty.
Andrew Chapman
6 cups of coffee and an hour of primal screaming.
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