Film actress; twice winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress
Recorded · Academy of Achievement · 2006
Thrust into my profession without any training whatsoever, I had to just flounder and just find my way. It was an agonizing experience.
The Art of Fiction
The Paris Review, put to novelists and poets
Originally asked
The Paris Review, to novelists and poets, The Art of Fiction
A recurrent craft question in The Paris Review's Art of Fiction interviews; wording varies between character, theme, first sentence, image, and idea.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
3 questions, 148 answers to them so far. Every one of them is asked here as itself, with the format it came from on the page. Nobody answers as anybody else. 148 of the answers are quoted from interviews in The Creative Independent, Academy of Achievement and elsewhere, each shown with its source. The people quoted did not answer on FLAPSS; members answer the same questions as themselves, and their answers are kept apart from the quotations.
Which writers or artists have most influenced your work?
Architect; winner of the 1989 Pritzker Prize
Recorded · Academy of Achievement · 2016
I spent time with Rauschenberg a lot during the combine period. I think just around the combine period.
Novelist; Nobel laureate in Literature 2024
Recorded · The Nobel Prize · 2024
For me, since when I was a child, all writers have been collective. They are searching meanings in life.
Every question in this set
- How does a new piece of work usually begin for you? 60
- How much rewriting or revision do you typically do? 46
- Which writers or artists have most influenced your work? 42
The number is how many answers are on the record here. A dash means nobody has answered it yet, which is an opening rather than a gap.