One shot
“I feel like dancing, and I often do, alone, like Billy Idol.” Charlie Williams has been eliciting some interesting responses – from Toby Litt, Willy Vlautin, Nicholas Royle, Steve Aylett, Daren King, Jonathan Lethem [quoted above] and more – to the question, “When it’s going well, what does writing feel like for you?”
Black Holes
“Why waste your time constructing those big green beasts people aren’t even tall enough to look at, so they get neck cramps, and they have to stand twenty feet away to see what’s going on?” “I’d ask you why you fiddle with things so small people have to squint into microscopes to see, and torture themselves with tweezers to appreciate.” “I make them look deeper into things,” Krandal said, “because there’s so much detail in people’s lives and they refuse to see it. They just ignore the most important parts of who they are.” “The blood-drinking monster parts?” “Maybe.” Krandal took a sip of beer. “Well, my beasts, as you call them, are so big because, as you said, sometimes people need to step back to see the whole of something, to get a clear picture of the larger, telescopic aspects of problems people deal with everyday.”
By Eric Beeny.