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Friday, September 21, 2007
 
Alan Greenspan and The Juice Discuss the Writer's Craft

GREENSPAN: —I couldn’t help but ask myself, How the heck did he come up with this? I mean, some of [your] stuff is really out there.

SIMPSON: I thought it would be interesting to put myself inside the head of a sociopathic killer—sort of like what Bret Easton Ellis did in American Psycho.

GREENSPAN: I love Bret’s work.

SIMPSON: When I was in the writing program at Iowa, one of my teachers—Raymond Carver, I think—said, 'Juice, write what you know.' But I think the only way to grow as a writer is to create a character who is the opposite of you, and ask, 'What makes that guy tick?'

GREENSPAN: I’m curious—if he’s the opposite of you, why did you name him O. J. Simpson?

SIMPSON: I have to admit I stole that idea from Martin Amis. . . .
- posted by cjb @ 7:53 PM


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