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INTERVIEWER
Do you have any warm-up exercises to get going?
WHITE
Delay is natural to a writer. He is like a surfer—he bides his time, waits for the perfect wave on which to ride in. Delay is instinctive with him. He waits for the surge (of emotion? of strength? of courage?) that will carry him along. I have no warm-up exercises, other than to take an occasional drink. I am apt to let something simmer for a while in my mind before trying to put it into words. I walk around, straightening pictures on the wall, rugs on the floor—as though not until everything in the world was lined up and perfectly true could anybody reasonably expect me to set a word down on paper.
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| Authors Mentioned |
| William Faulkner, Vladimir Nabokov, Frank O'Hara, James Thurber, Jane Austen, Wendell P. Bradley, Rachel Carson, Helen Hokinson, James Joyce, B. Cory Kilvert, Jr., Robert Francis Kilvert, Ring Lardner, William J. Long, Don Marquis, Christopher Morley, S. J. Perelman, Kenneth Roberts, Ernest Thompson Seton, William Strunk, Henry David Thoreau, Katharine S. White, Edmund Wilson |
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