Cathedral made of fire

[idaho_laurie]

Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer-prize winning author of The Hours, has this to say about the novelist's enterprise:

Here’s a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished book is a rather rough translation of the book they’d intended to write. It’s one of the heartbreaks of writing fiction. You

Comments

[dlgarfinkle]

So relieved to hear I'm not alone. And I'm sure in great company with M. Cunningham.

[idaho_laurie]

It's a great piece if you get a chance to read it, and not as much of a downer as it seems from this quote.

[idaho_laurie]

Yeah. A little clapboard house would do for me. I don't think I could manage a Craftsman bungalow let alone a cathedral.

[tracyworld]

Guess I've been shooting too low. I've never even contemplated creating a cathedral of fire.

Darn.

[idaho_laurie]

I'm working on a nice outhouse. The kind with the half-moon cutout in the door.

[tracyworld]

HA!!!!!

Thank you for making me laugh out loud first thing in the morning.

[idaho_laurie]

Any time. Well....not in the morning. Lately I'm a zombie in the morning.

[lorrainemt]

Um...I'm just wanting to finish the darn book--forget about any transcendent cathedrals. ;)

[idaho_laurie]

These days I'd gladly settle for a blazing outhouse.

[lorrainemt]

ha ha, you're funny!

a blazing outhouse

[cynthialord]

Love that!