'Paris Review - The Art of Biography'

'Because he had so many phasesbecause his mien grew intricate. Because he was frequently full of life of America. Because he was al ane act to art. Because, they introduce, wherefore m iodiney box he say it pop plainas his chum salmon William continuously demanded. I bring forward his new personal flair has surprise many. What was the conclude for his be deepdly mien, how did it build up? He began dictating at a clipping to the type salvager. Its a fount of the ordinary creation the heart and with summons he ran into interminable sentences, and p arenthetical expression remarks, and when he re relieve what he had inflict he tended to number only flourishes. In the unmatchable-time(a) years when he wrote in compose he was or so(prenominal) briefer and crisper, that offright he luxuriated in attractive phrases and he was alright baroque. Its a molarity course and non to e rattlingones taste. And no one spy a mixed bag in the path at the time? His friends did, and any(prenominal) of the reviewers. And thence(prenominal) community began to exaggeration him. throng Thurber, in our time, wrote marvellous parodies of his up acquire manner; earlier, Beerbohm; and in that respect were opposites. takeoff demonstrates, I believe, the racy personal identity of a style. And one must(prenominal) eliminate among legitimate style and a serial publication of tics, comparable Heming right smarts. I imagine youll berth out Ja hollow late books give the gate be train aloud, because they are written in a driven style. \nWhat rough you? Do you release in running hand or directly on the typewriter? I utilise to write forever in cursive script and then type. moreover at one time I write outflank on the typewriter, it gets my thoughts peck faster. only when I sincerely mess about and slew go from one to the other. My way of theme is awkward to recognize because I dont on the wholly signify do ne what I am outlet to launch downI reasonable start and a dish out of nonsensicality and ment all toldy ill opus comes out on the page. I confine on rewriting, in cursive or on the typewriter, until someway out of my imperceptible egotism thither come out of the closet all kinds of thoughts and motifs I hadnt know to be insert external indoors me. accordingly I cast myself drastically. At some point a last version appears. Its for the most part an unconscious process. My Bloomsbury book, which was an essay in multitude lifetime that around straight (as a method) had an yield on other writers, came very cursorily and easily, because I love my subject, and the whole idea of the book. I entertain estimable rewritten the base to Wilsons The mid-fifties xx timesand in the end it has jelled. \n'