https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/27/books/review/Krystal-t.html

[Anonymous No.12375910]

What do you think this article?
It argues that good writers are mostly are dull conversationalist. The writer uses Nabokov in a TV as one of the examples, where he was stuttering a lot to the answers of the interviewee's questions and relied on prefabricated responses written on paper to talk about his work.

[Anonymous No.12376109]

Chesterton was a good writer and also a great conversationalist.

[Anonymous No.12376185]

*btfos author of the article by giving a kino interview*

[Anonymous No.12376205]

>>12376109
that's because he was a journalist
he's "good" like c. hitchens is "good"
don't be fooled by journos

[Anonymous No.12376321]

>>12376205
Hitchens bit his pillow at night wishing he could write something as good as The Napoleon of Notting Hill.

[Anonymous No.12376354]

>>12375910
I don't know. Some of them are, some aren't. Some talk like they write. Bolaño and Cortázar come to mind. But it's not something carved in stobe.

[Anonymous No.12376437]

>>12376354
>Some talk like they write.

Yeah. In French, Roger Peyrefitte comes to mind.

https://youtu.be/X-mBGJ2NZWA

Although tbf the level of spoken French has declined so much over the past half-century that almost any interview from the 1960s sounds like it's in high-register written French.

[Anonymous No.12376560]

>>12375910
what a stupid thing to care about

[Anonymous No.12376597]

>>12376560
Wouldn't expect any different from a pedo like Nabokov.

"The writer of Lolita is here with us"
"Yeeesss, *snort* Lo-lee-ta"

[Anonymous No.12376635]

Nabby was just insecure that he'd come off rambling and wanted to give as stylish answers as in his writing.

Look here at 32:55 when he isn't scripted, he comes off well and desu adorable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8171K40pJho&t=1974s

[Anonymous No.12376648]

>>12376597
>a writer is his characters
That level of plebbiness can only be found in Plebbit.

[Anonymous No.12376696]

>>12376635
>ethnically and culturally Russian
>speaks English with a British accent
>late in life he considers himself an American writer
What did he mean by this?

[Anonymous No.12376711]

He prepared his answers because he said his English was not very good in conversation

[Anonymous No.12376986]

>>12376696
>ethnically and culturally Russian

Ethnically, he was a German-Tatar mongrel, while culturally he was more French than Russian

[Anonymous No.12376992]

>>12375910
His stuttering was fake. He did it to seem like he was speaking naturally.

[Anonymous No.12377029]

>>12375910
yes, he thinks like a genius but speaks like a child , I'm Russian and that's embarrassing for my nation

[Anonymous No.12377035]

>>12377029
Wow quoting the first page of a book? You must be some kind of genius yourself.

[Anonymous No.12377137]

>>12377035
haha, no, didn't expect that honestly!!! But it is really a very famous quote by him and it is a widely known fact that he prepared all the answers in advance for all of his interviews.
I think a better example will be DFW (good writer) who seemed to be really uncomfortable throughout his interviews and indeed sounded dull (both with Charlie Rose and that German girl). John Green is a dull writer and a dull conversationist or so it seems. H. Bloom (a good writer) is very eloquent. Brodsky is very eloquent in Russian in the documentary with Russian poet Rein, where they just walk around Venice and converse about history, art etc without any prep. I think it has more to do with the interview format. some people are good at it, some are not including writers

[Anonymous No.12377148]

>>12377137
I was intentionally being an unreasonable dick, that’s /lit/ after all. I believe that quote is on the first page of his Strong Opinions book.