“Did Agatha Christie, who wrote several dozen mystery novels during her 53-year career, suffer from Alzheimer’s-related dementia?”
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Cormac McCarthy’s typewriter is being auctioned. McCarthy says: “It has never been serviced or cleaned other than blowing out the dust with a service station hose. … I have typed on this typewriter every book I have written including three not published. Including all drafts and correspondence I would put this at about five million words over a period of 50 years.” via NYTimes.com.
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Getting rid of a book is “like throwing away a plant. They feel sort of alive.” via Stacked Up; Writers show off their shelves
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“Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don’t have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It’s not a good arrangement. If I were God, I wouldn’t have done it that way. Things I’ve written about are no longer of any interest to me, but they were certainly of interest before I wrote about them. So there’s something about writing about it that flattens them. You’ve used them up.” [Cormac McCarthy Interview - WSJ.com]
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Mary Ann de Stefano
