He was trapped in a rut between journalism and meagre scraps of prose. Short stories were the best he could do. Very short, too short to make a living from, even if he got paid for them...- Andrey Kurkov, Death and the Penguin
They had been amazingly fickle, his muses. Or he had been at fault for picking such unreliable ones.
Tuesday, 7 December 2010
Literal failure (or, Excerpts from my Autobiography, by Some Other Bloke)
Labels:
Andrey Kurkov,
Journalism,
Quoted Matter,
the Muse,
The writer's life
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