If you feel like you don't have a choice to write it, write it. If you feel like you do have a choice, then move on, because there are so many books in the world. Bill Clegg bookchoicefeel Change image and share on social
If a writer I represent gets a bad or unfair review, I suffer. I'm upset and outraged and do everything I can to try and change that. But I would never do that on behalf of my own book because I wouldn't expect my writers to do that. Bill Clegg badbehalfbook share on social
William Kittredge's 'Hole in the Sky' is one of my favorite books. Ian Frazier's 'Family' I adore. Bill Clegg adorebookfamily Change image and share on social
I'm rereading Jenny Offill's 'Dept. of Speculation.' I love it, and she's just a magician. Line by line and paragraph by paragraph, it's mesmerizing and so intricately plotted and so nimble. Bill Clegg deptintricatelyjenny Change image and share on social
I don't think of literary novels as self-help documents, although literature undoubtedly saved my life when I was young, enabling me to disappear into all manner of stories, to recognise feelings that I felt alone in. Bill Clegg disappeardocumentenable share on social
I think growing up in such a small town - before cell phones, before the Internet, before Facebook, before we had access to people's interiors - there was a great deal of space between people's lives. I spent a lot of time imagining into the lives of the people I grew up with. Bill Clegg accesscelldeal share on social
In the little rural town I grew up in, I missed out on the pop music of the time, the '80s, and now enjoy in retrospect. It's as an adult that I've opened it up to dance, hip-hop, R&B, and even big pop songs. Bill Clegg 80sadultbig share on social
My experience of fiction was, in the beginning, so exploratory. I wasn't sitting down to a desk at Yaddo with a month, thinking I have to have a draft of a novel. Bill Clegg begindeskdraft Change image and share on social
When I write, I tend to read it out loud to myself after. I'm a very uncomfortable reader, so it creates a distance between the text and me - it is a new way to see it. Bill Clegg createdistanceloud Change image and share on social
Public speaking, for me, or speaking even in front of a handful of people is my greatest fear. Bill Clegg fearfrontgreat Change image and share on social
