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Faulkner wrote lots of good stuff after age 40.

THAT’S IT!!!! THAT’S IT!!!! THAT’S IIITTTTTT!!!!!!! I have always wanted to write, and suffer from keyboard fright, but I just learned a lesson...GET DRUNK AND WRITE!!!!!!!! YES!!!!!YES!!!!!YES!!!!!!!

They just need to leave the hooch alone and drink absinthe instead. It’s not called the Green Muse (or Green fairy) for nothing.

For those that haven’t tried it yet, it’s now legal in the U.S. Pour some in a glass and drizzle some ice water over a sugar cube through a slotted spoon. When the color changes, it’s ready for drinking. Yum!

“Displaying much grandiosity and pride,” they wrote in their notes. “Very impressed with self.” Eventually he fell silent. Four weeks later he emerged, shaky, fragile and subdued. “Listen, Truman,” he told Truman Capote. “It’s the most terrible, glum place you can conceivably imagine. It’s really really, really grim...."

We really, really need a second volume of Paul Johnson's The Intellectuals.

Stephen King says he cannot remember writing “Cujo”, he was so loaded;

I can believe that. Reading Cujo is like listening to a drunk in a bar telling a seemingly endless (literally) shaggy-dog story. It's overwritten by at least half its length.

My favorite novelist, who beats them all hands down, is John O’Hara.

BUtterfield 8 (It’s a phone number; it’s spelled correctly)
Appointment in Samara
Hope of Heaven

Many have been made and re-made into movies. Liz Taylor in BUtterfield 8? An absolute STUNNER. Timeless classics.

http://www.coalregion.com/Amazon/ohara.html

Whether O’Hara was a big old drunk or not, I do not know; but most of his characters were...and with good reason, LOL!

My problem with writing drunk is that after a while I can't find the kebs. I start out with some piece of lapidary prose chiseling out the finer features of mankind fromthe cold granite of life and wind up wirh a growunf pile od shid. I comebacka dat lager ans think, ‘jebus Crft Wuk th fokl is thuw plkw of shul”?

Thanks for this! I was considering a second career as an alcoholic poet, after I moved South, of course, but now I see I stand a better chance by just staying in the North country. I'm still considering the alcholholic part, tho! (j/k, and no offense meant to any alcholics reading this!) Oh, and I might someday take up spelling, too. :)

John Cheever was most unhappy to be picked up for vagrancy by the cops. “My name is John Cheever [1]!” he bellowed. “Are you out of your mind?”

Now...why does that statement sound so familiar to me? Hmmm....I think it was a recent news story involving the local police and someone....someone who thought his name carried weight. Now who was that?

I don’t think Asimov drank while writing. I consider him a great writer.

They’re just looking for an excuse.

ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKES JACK A DULL BOY

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