The Writing Process

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Chapter 30 - The Writing Process

“A Book Determines Its Own Dimensions”: Observing, Writing, Typing

from Part VII - Writing and Writers

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 May 2022

Harold K. Bush

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Jesse Kavadlo

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Jesse Kavadlo: Affiliation:
Maryville University of Saint Louis, Missouri

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This chapter gives an account of DeLillo’s working habits and disciplines – what he once called “a deep, very radical sense of habit” – and his theory of writing, most of which has been culled from direct interviews.

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Don DeLillo writers writing authorship interview

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Information: Don DeLillo In Context , pp. 291 - 298

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009025676.038 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2022

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