Wall Street Journal: How does that ticking clock affect your work? Does it make you want to write more shorter pieces, or to cap things with a large, all-encompassing work?
Cormac McCarthy: I'm not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
I am putting Blood Meridian on my reading list.
i read a plot synopsis for BM for a paper i was writing and i had nightmares for a week.
ReplyDeleteHis books scare the pants off of me. I read The Road with one eye shut the whole time.
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