by Mason Currey
553. “I get very”: Interview with LeClair.
554. David Foster Wallace: David Lipsky, Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace (New York: Broadway Books, 2010); interview with Lewis Frumkes, 1999, http://lewisfrumkes.com/radioshow/david-foster-wallace-interview.
555. “I usually go”: Quoted in Lipsky, 135. Commas added for consistency.
556. “Things are either”: Interview with Frumkes.
557. Marina Abramovic: Interview with author, August 12, 2010.
558. Twyla Tharp: Twyla Tharp with Mark Reiter, The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life (2003; repr. New York: Simon and Schuster Paperbacks, 2006).
559. “I begin each”: Ibid., 14.
560. “a friendly reminder”: Ibid., 15.
561. “arsenal of routines”: Ibid.
562. “I repeat the”: Ibid., 56.
563. “It’s actively anti-social”: Ibid., 237.
564. Stephen King: Stephen King, On Writing (2000; repr. New York: Pocket Books, 2002).
565. “Like your bedroom”: Ibid., 152–3.
566. Marilynne Robinson: Interview with Sarah Fay, “The Art of Fiction No. 198: Marilynne Robinson,” Paris Review, Fall 2008, http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5863/the-art-of-fiction-no-198-marilynne-robinson.
567. Saul Bellow: James Atlas, Bellow: A Biography (New York: Random House, 2000); Gloria L. Cronin and Ben Siegel, eds., Conversations with Saul Bellow (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi 1994); Saul Bellow, Saul Bellow: Letters, ed. Benjamin Taylor (New York: Viking, 2010). Kindle edition.
568. “Someone once called”: Quoted in Nina Steers, “Successor to Faulkner,” Show, September 1964, in Cronin and Siegel, 31.
569. “Rising promptly at”: Atlas, 427.
570. “I simply get”: Saul Bellow to Edward Shils, January 20, 1968, in Letters.
571. Gerhard Richter: Michael Kimmelman, “An Artist Beyond Isms,” New York Times, January 27, 2002, http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/27/magazine/an-artist-beyond-isms.html.
572. Jonathan Franzen: Emily Eakin, “Into the Dazzling Light,” Observer, November 11, 2001, http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2001/nov/11/fiction.features; Nina Willdorf, “An Author’s Story,” Boston Phoenix, November 8–15, 2001, http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/other_stories/multi-page/documents/01997111.htm.
573. “I was frantically”: Quoted in Willdorf.
574. “I was in such”: Quoted in Eakin.
575. Maira Kalman: E-mail message to author, March 24, 2010.
576. Georges Simenon: Pierre Assouline, Simenon: A Biography, trans. Jon Rothschild (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997); Patrick Marnham, The Man Who Wasn’t Maigret: A Portrait of Georges Simenon (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1992); interview with Carvel Collins, “The Art of Fiction No. 9: Georges Simenon,” Paris Review, Summer 1955, http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5020/the-art-of-fiction-no-9-georges-simenon.
577. His typical schedule: Assouline, 326.
578. “Most people work”: Quoted in Marnham, 163.
579. “Women have always”: Interview with Collins.
580. Stephen Jay Gould: Interview with Academy of Achievement, June 28, 1991, http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/gouoint-1.
581. Bernard Malamud: Philip Davis, Bernard Malamud: A Writer’s Life (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007); Lawrence Lasher, ed., Conversations with Bernard Malamud (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1991); Janna Malamud Smith, My Father Is a Book: A Memoir of Bernard Malamud (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2006); interview with Daniel Stern, “The Art of Fiction No. 52: Bernard Malamud,” Paris Review, Spring 1975, http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3869/the-art-of-fiction-no-52-bernard-malamud.
582. “time-haunted man”: Davis, 6.
583. “absolutely, compulsively prompt”: Malamud Smith, 36.
584. “Discipline is an”: Quoted in Jack Rosenthal, “Author Finds Room to Breathe in Corvallis,” Oregonian, April 12, 1959, in Lasher, 9–10.
585. “and I sneak”: Quoted in Joseph Wershba, “Not Horror but Sadness,” New York Post, September 14, 1958, in Lasher, 6.
586. “There’s no one”: Interview with Daniel Stern.
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