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Anyone know who said this?
Jun. 18th, 2006 09:51 amNeil Gaiman quoted someone else in his journal, and I haven't been able to find out who said it originally:
Be bourgeois and restrained in your life that you may be wild and unconstrained in your fiction.
Someone in a LJ response suggested that it might be Flaubert. Anyone have any idea?
In case you're wondering, he posted it as part of a response to an Italian guy (hopefully very underage, because otherwise you have to wonder about how he got the idea in his head) who wrote to Neil asking if you had to be a drinker or "wild one" to be a writer. Obviously this person's never met that many writers.
If you'd like to see his whole blog entry, it's here.
Be bourgeois and restrained in your life that you may be wild and unconstrained in your fiction.
Someone in a LJ response suggested that it might be Flaubert. Anyone have any idea?
In case you're wondering, he posted it as part of a response to an Italian guy (hopefully very underage, because otherwise you have to wonder about how he got the idea in his head) who wrote to Neil asking if you had to be a drinker or "wild one" to be a writer. Obviously this person's never met that many writers.
If you'd like to see his whole blog entry, it's here.