Yes to more examples of people sticking to their rhythms, creative inspirations and ambitions for life! I love how Tranströmer did not follow the path that was being laid out for him and instead wandered away from the literary power centres to do his own thing.
I recently found an interview of the American author Donna Tartt with the CBS News in which she said she would be happy writing five books in her lifetime because she writes at a devastatingly slow pace (a decade for each of the three books she has written). Her debut novel, The Secret History, was critically and commercially successful (not to mention, long). She could have tried to write a liiitle faster, but it made her unhappy so she's content with writing two more. Love when people do things that make no sense in the present but turn out to have payoffs in the long run.
Yes to more examples of people sticking to their rhythms, creative inspirations and ambitions for life! I love how Tranströmer did not follow the path that was being laid out for him and instead wandered away from the literary power centres to do his own thing.
I recently found an interview of the American author Donna Tartt with the CBS News in which she said she would be happy writing five books in her lifetime because she writes at a devastatingly slow pace (a decade for each of the three books she has written). Her debut novel, The Secret History, was critically and commercially successful (not to mention, long). She could have tried to write a liiitle faster, but it made her unhappy so she's content with writing two more. Love when people do things that make no sense in the present but turn out to have payoffs in the long run.