If a writer I represent gets a bad or unfair review, I suffer. I'm upset and outraged and do everything I can to try and change that. But I would never do that on behalf of my own book because I wouldn't expect my writers to do that. Bill Clegg badbehalfbook share on social
William Kittredge's 'Hole in the Sky' is one of my favorite books. Ian Frazier's 'Family' I adore. Bill Clegg adorebookfamily Change image and share on social
I'm rereading Jenny Offill's 'Dept. of Speculation.' I love it, and she's just a magician. Line by line and paragraph by paragraph, it's mesmerizing and so intricately plotted and so nimble. Bill Clegg deptintricatelyjenny Change image and share on social
I don't think of literary novels as self-help documents, although literature undoubtedly saved my life when I was young, enabling me to disappear into all manner of stories, to recognise feelings that I felt alone in. Bill Clegg disappeardocumentenable share on social
I think growing up in such a small town - before cell phones, before the Internet, before Facebook, before we had access to people's interiors - there was a great deal of space between people's lives. I spent a lot of time imagining into the lives of the people I grew up with. Bill Clegg accesscelldeal share on social
In the little rural town I grew up in, I missed out on the pop music of the time, the '80s, and now enjoy in retrospect. It's as an adult that I've opened it up to dance, hip-hop, R&B, and even big pop songs. Bill Clegg 80sadultbig share on social
My experience of fiction was, in the beginning, so exploratory. I wasn't sitting down to a desk at Yaddo with a month, thinking I have to have a draft of a novel. Bill Clegg begindeskdraft Change image and share on social
When I write, I tend to read it out loud to myself after. I'm a very uncomfortable reader, so it creates a distance between the text and me - it is a new way to see it. Bill Clegg createdistanceloud Change image and share on social
Public speaking, for me, or speaking even in front of a handful of people is my greatest fear. Bill Clegg fearfrontgreat Change image and share on social
Recovery is an ongoing project that is really discrete from everything else in my life. It allows me to be an agent, allows me to write, allows me to be married, allows me to be part of a family. The writing is not a support beam of recovery but a happy consequence of it. Bill Clegg agentbeamconsequence share on social
