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Showing posts with label Guy Davenport. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Guy Davenport. Show all posts

Friday, January 11, 2013

Guy Davenport on the pleasure of and ideas for writing

DAVENPORT: As long as you have ideas you can keep going. That's why writing fiction is so much fun, because you're moving people about, and making settings for them to move in, so there's always something there to keep working on..

--Guy Davenport, The Art of Fiction No. 174, Paris Review

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Guy Davenport on his biography


INTERVIEWER:  Is anyone writing your biography?

DAVENPORT: I have no life.

--Guy Davenport, The Art of Fiction No. 174, Paris Review