Episode 81 - DBC Pierre: Part 2
from This Writing Life Hosted by James Kidd
In his second This Writing Life podcast, DBC Pierre talks learning to write by remembering what he has read. For dialogue, he looked to Len Deighton. ----more---- After a discussion of how written speech differs from spoken speech, he moved towards: tell vs show: writing dialogue in Vernon God Little is Pierre an instinctive writer? 'I am going to speak differently to you than I will to the Queen or a child or an enemy' how flamenco on late night Spanish television helped Pierre find his voice in Release the Bats 'rocket fuel': Pierre's enthusiasm for writing and writers what stops Pierre writing? dog racing, writers and nature 'I am the black sheep in the family. It is my job to have lots of promise and not to fulfil it.' Pierre's father and family hierarchy did Pierre worry that analysing the creative process might wreck the creative process? Pierre on 'the century of neuropsychology' 'Nothing has changed in human nature in two and half million years' 'Our anger and conflict...drive us to write' does writing help? Part three to follow.
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