“People assume that writers are terribly insightful
and good at being with or reading other people. But the people we portray are,
of course, people we made up and therefore very accessible to us. We hopefully
make mankind our study and gain benefits from that. We are also human beings
who spend huge amounts of time alone, obsessed by the fruits of our own
control-freakery. So our research into humanity may make us smart about certain
things, but if you get us on a bad day we may not notice if you’re on fire.
(When I say ‘we’ I mean ‘me.’)” — Scottish writer and stand-up comedian A.L.
Kennedy quoted in Claire Cameron, “Claire Cameron Interviews A.L. Kennedy: ‘Marry Someone Who Makes You Laugh,’” Los Angeles Review of Books, August 11,
2014Thursday, May 4, 2017
Quote of the Day (A.L. Kennedy, on the True Nature of Writers’ Insights)
“People assume that writers are terribly insightful
and good at being with or reading other people. But the people we portray are,
of course, people we made up and therefore very accessible to us. We hopefully
make mankind our study and gain benefits from that. We are also human beings
who spend huge amounts of time alone, obsessed by the fruits of our own
control-freakery. So our research into humanity may make us smart about certain
things, but if you get us on a bad day we may not notice if you’re on fire.
(When I say ‘we’ I mean ‘me.’)” — Scottish writer and stand-up comedian A.L.
Kennedy quoted in Claire Cameron, “Claire Cameron Interviews A.L. Kennedy: ‘Marry Someone Who Makes You Laugh,’” Los Angeles Review of Books, August 11,
2014
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