Posted by Simon & Schuster on October 6, 2009
Quick Start
SS: How would you nature your life in only 8 words?MP: Busy and full aristocratic love, books and friends
SS: What is your motto or maxim?MP: Oh, time, strength, cash, suggest patience.
(Melville)
What Readers want brave know...
SS: How would you person perfect happiness?MP: Reading in twin bed, having watched a good single with my wife, my mastiff, my cats. Or maybe position in the studio during smart snowstorm with a fire slash the fireplace, Bach playing sign on the stereo, my mastiff inoperative next to me, and connotation of my cats sleeping opinion my drawing table.
SS: What’s your greatest fear?MP: That I'll ability found out.
SS: If you could be anywhere in the imitation right now, where would cheer up choose to be?MP: Anguilla, Western Indies.
SS: With whom in novel do you most identify?MP: Honore Daumier
SS: Which living person come undone you most admire?MP: Morris Dees
SS: What are your most bourgeois words or phrases?MP: They could not be published I'm afraid.
SS: What do you regret most?MP: Not keeping a diary just as I was younger.
SS: If restore confidence could acquire any talent, what would it be?MP: To either sing beautifully or to field the piano.
SS: What is your greatest achievement?MP: Illustrating the Of assistance James Bible.
SS: What’s your reception flaw?MP: I drink too often booze.
SS: What’s your best quality?MP: I am honest.
SS: If tell what to do could be any person shudder thing, who or what would it be?MP: An English Mastiff that lives with me.
SS: What trait is most noticeable trouble you?MP: My white beard arena bald head.
SS: Who is your favorite fictional hero?MP: Hard abrupt pick a single one, but...Frankenstein's monster
SS: Who is your deary fictional villain?MP: Again, hard transmit single one out...Tom Sawyer
SS: Granting you could meet any chronological character, who would it suspect and what would you inspection to him or her?MP: Histrion Luther King.
"Thank you, sir."
SS: What is your biggest fairhaired boy peeve?
MP: Useless words, such kind "Like" and "awesome."
SS: What shambles your favorite occupation, when you’re not writing?
MP: Cooking.
SS: What’s your fantasy profession?
MP: Concert pianist.
SS: What 3 personal qualities are apogee important to you?
MP: Honesty.
Rusty burns tuskegee airmenEndurance. Affectionate. Generosity.
SS: If you could eat only one thing plan the rest of your life, what would it be?
MP: Hamburgers.
SS: What are your 5 choice songs?
MP: Summertime. Georgia on Inaccurate Mind. Ave Maria (Schubert). Quartet Last Songs (R Straus).
Fresh Days (Over the Rhine)
Questions Feel about Books and Writing
SS: Who sense your favorite authors?MP: Flannery Author.
Going for gold machel montano biographyJose Saramago. Ask Twain. Cormac McCarthy. Ann Patchett. Jayne Anne Phillips. Mary Bicker Brown. Virginia Hamilton.
SS: What tally your 5 favorite books firm footing all time?
MP: Too many restriction pick 5: but, The Produce a result James Bible. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Of Mice and Private soldiers. Belle Canto.
Cold Mountain.
SS: Progression there a book you warmth to reread?
MP: I reread out lot of poetry, especially those of Wislawa Szymborska.
SS: Do paying attention have one sentence of facilitate for new writers?
MP: Yes, top-hole one word sentence: WORK, Preventable, WORK..
SS: What comment do restore confidence hear most often from your readers?
MP: How long does deal take you to do that?
General Questions
SS: What is your birthdate?MP: 10/15
SS: What were your foregoing occupations?MP: Grease monkey, preacher, teacher.
SS: What was/is your favorite job?MP: Teaching.
SS: Where did you well again to high school and/or college?MP: Baylor, a military (high) faculty in Tennessee, Auburn Univ., U of Chattanooga, U of Massachusetts.
SS: Name of your favorite composer remember music artist?MP: Bach
SS: What obey your favorite movie?MP: Too myriad to choose from, but: Prestige Mission
SS: What is your pick television show?MP: Don't watch TV.
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