interview5 What is the secret to keeping your readers entertained? What is the secret to keeping your readers entertained? My lucky thing is I laugh at exactly the same jokes that children laugh at and that's one reason I'm able to do it. I don't sit out here roaring with laughter but you have wonderful inside jokes all the time and it's got to be exciting, it's got to be fast, it's got to have a good plot but it's got to be funny. It's got to be funny. And eac.. 2009. 7. 13. 로알드 달 인터뷰(How easy was it to write Matilda?) How easy was it to write Matilda? I got it wrong. I spent 6 or 8 or 9 months writing it, and when I'd finished, it wasn't right. I mean it just wasn't right. I hadn't backed up and I hadn't kept changing, because the character, the main character the little girl keeps changing at you all the time and I hadn't bothered to go back and re-write that for several chapters. So a year ago I started the.. 2009. 7. 7. What is your work routine? What is your work routine? My work routine is very simple and it's always been same for the last 45 years. The great thing, of course, is never to work too long at a stretch because after about 2hours you are not at your highest peak of concentration so you have to stop. Some writers choose certain times to work, others [choose] other times and it suits me to start rather late, I start at 10 o'c.. 2009. 7. 2. How did you get the idea for James and the Giant Peach? How did you get the idea for James and the Giant Peach? I had a kind of fascination with the thought that an apple...(there's a lot of apple trees around here, and fruit trees, and you can watch them in the throught the summer growing bigger and bigger from a tiny litte apple to bigger and bigger ones)... and it seemed to me an obvious thought, what would happen if it didn't stop growing? Why sh.. 2009. 7. 1. What is it like writing a book? What is it like writing a book? When you're writing it's rather like going on a very long walk, across valleys and mountains and things, and you get the first view of what you see and you write it down. Then you walk bit further, maybe up on to the top of a hill, and you see something else, then you write that and you go on like that, day after day, getting different views of the same landscape .. 2009. 6. 30. 이전 1 다음
