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9781849821087: Don't Quit Your Day Job: Acclaimed Authors and the Day Jobs They Quit
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ISBN 10 : 1849821089 ISBN 13 : 9781849821087
Editeur : M P Publishing Limited, 2010

Synopsis

Dear Booklover: P J O'Rourke said, 'Creative writing teachers should be purged until every last instructor who has uttered the words 'Write what you know' is confined to a labour camp ...The blind guy with the funny little harp who composed "The Iliad," how much combat do you think he saw? Like O'Rourke, William Faulkner had his own take on the Other Commandment for writers, the one that goes, 'Thou shalt not quit thy day job.' Faulkner, who won the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature, had, twenty-five years before, worked at the post office in his hometown of Oxford, Mississippi. Mister Faulkner was known to say, 'One of the saddest things is that the only thing a man can do for eight hours, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day, nor drink for eight hours a day, nor make love for eight hours.' He must have been determined to give something else (writing, we may assume, perhaps a glass of whisky on the side) a whirl when he tendered his resignation to the postmaster. 'I reckon I'll be at the beck and call of folks with money all my life', he said, 'but thank God I won't ever again have to be at the beck and call of every son of a bitch who's got two cents to buy a stamp. The authors in this book have tried their hands at some of the same jobs you have held, or still keep. They've worked on the railroad, busted rocks with a sledgehammer, fought fires, wiped tables, soldiered and carpentered and spied, delivered pizzas, lacquered boat paddles, counted heads for the church, sold underwear, and, yes, delivered the mail. They've driven garbage trucks. And, like William Faulkner, they have quit those day jobs. And like Faulkner they write. They tell good tales. If you wonder what work preceded their efforts to produce a great pile of books, if you would like to know how they made the transition to, as William Gay said, 'clocking in at the culture factory', then this is the book you have been waiting for' - Sonny Brewer, Editor, Fairhope, Alabama. List of Contributors: Barb Johnson; Brad Watson; Cassandra King; Clay Risen; Connie May Fowler; Daniel Wallace; George Singleton; Howard Bahr; Janis Owens; John Grisham; Joshilyn Jackson; Larry Brown; Matthew Teague; Michelle Richmond; Pat Conroy; Rick Bragg; Silas House; Steve Yarbrough.; Suzanne Hudson; Tim Gautreaux; Tom Franklin; William Gay; Winston Groom.

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Dear Booklover: P J O'Rourke said, 'Creative writing teachers should be purged until every last instructor who has uttered the words 'Write what you know' is confined to a labour camp ...The blind guy with the funny little harp who composed "The Iliad," how much combat do you think he saw? Like O'Rourke, William Faulkner had his own take on the Other Commandment for writers, the one that goes, 'Thou shalt not quit thy day job.' Faulkner, who won the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature, had, twenty-five years before, worked at the post office in his hometown of Oxford, Mississippi. Mister Faulkner was known to say, 'One of the saddest things is that the only thing a man can do for eight hours, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day, nor drink for eight hours a day, nor make love for eight hours.' He must have been determined to give something else (writing, we may assume, perhaps a glass of whisky on the side) a whirl when he tendered his resignation to the postmaster. 'I reckon I'll be at the beck and call of folks with money all my life', he said, 'but thank God I won't ever again have to be at the beck and call of every son of a bitch who's got two cents to buy a stamp. The authors in this book have tried their hands at some of the same jobs you have held, or still keep. They've worked on the railroad, busted rocks with a sledgehammer, fought fires, wiped tables, soldiered and carpentered and spied, delivered pizzas, lacquered boat paddles, counted heads for the church, sold underwear, and, yes, delivered the mail. They've driven garbage trucks. And, like William Faulkner, they have quit those day jobs. And like Faulkner they write. They tell good tales. If you wonder what work preceded their efforts to produce a great pile of books, if you would like to know how they made the transition to, as William Gay said, 'clocking in at the culture factory', then this is the book you have been waiting for' - Sonny Brewer, Editor, Fairhope, Alabama. List of Contributors: Barb Johnson; Brad Watson; Cassandra King; Clay Risen; Connie May Fowler; Daniel Wallace; George Singleton; Howard Bahr; Janis Owens; John Grisham; Joshilyn Jackson; Larry Brown; Matthew Teague; Michelle Richmond; Pat Conroy; Rick Bragg; Silas House; Steve Yarbrough.; Suzanne Hudson; Tim Gautreaux; Tom Franklin; William Gay; Winston Groom.

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Éditeur
M P Publishing Limited
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1849821089
ISBN 13 
9781849821087
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
272
Éditeur
Brewer Sonny
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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