
Craig Rice on Words and Writing

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I believe Georges Simenon said he wrote this way - holed up in a room for a week and writing off into the blue without knowing who had committed the murder until he got to the end.
ReplyDeleteClearly both of them wrote the book in their head and when it was done sat down to type it out. I like it when it works this way but it isn't often.
ReplyDeletePatti: I'm reading Jeffrey Marks' biography of Craig Rice now, and it sounds like she was very mentally unstable, with long bouts of depression broken up by intense periods of work. This was sadly probably the only way she could write. I'll post about the biography when I am done reading, it is excellent and very compelling so far.
ReplyDeleteFascinating! I've haven't read any of her books, but I'm tempted to now.
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