Torrey Peters: ‘Als je als schrijver ergens geen woorden voor hebt, dan begint het interessant te worden.’ | De Volkskrant
‘Schrijven is een uiting van het ego. De lezer heeft twee opties: lezen of niet lezen. Als iemand mijn boek wel leest, spreek ik op zijn minst vier of vijf uur tegen ze. Ik vraag om hun aandacht. Luister naar mijn stem en naar wat ik te zeggen heb.’
The Missing Pages of Laurent Binet’s HHhH - The Millions
“Inventing a character in order to understand historical facts is like fabricating evidence. Or rather, it’s like planting false proof at a crime scene where the floor is already strewn with incriminating evidence.”
The usual 'I' we are given has all the tidy containment of the kind of character the realist novel specialises in and none of the porousness of our every waking moment, the loose threads, the strange dreams, the forgetting and misrememberings, the portions of life lived through others' stories, the incoherence and inconsistency, the pantheon of dei ex machina and the companionability of ghosts. There are other ways of telling.
"the usual 'I' we are given has all the tidy containment of the kind of character the realist novel specialises in and none of the porousness of our every waking moment, the loose threads, the strange dreams, the forgetting and misrememberings, the portions of life lived through others' stories, the incoherence and inconsistency, the pantheon of dei ex machina and the companionability of ghosts. There are other ways of telling." The Faraway Nearby
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