Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Castaway
1 appearance
A writer.
On the island
Eight records
Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18Favourite
I had an artist friend, a painter. And she was doing a portrait of me and she sometimes put it on to play, so I associate it with that and her own seriousness.
This I like because it's one of the few which is sung in German instead of Latin, and it's also comical. It's about a young girl whose father wants her to stop drinking coffee... and so the song that I like, the father says she can't get married unless she stops drinking coffee. And so she says, 'All right, I'll stop. I prefer to get married.'
He sounds very troubled. He sounds like present-day life in a sense, and I like his orchestration.
Iberia (Book 1): No. 3. Rondenio
I think this is very refreshing, very poetic.
In conversation
Presenter asks
0:54Could you endure prolonged loneliness?
I think I could, uh better than most people, probably.
Presenter asks
2:05How did you set about choosing your [eight] discs? Are you choosing nostalgically?
chose uh what I happen to like or what I consider inspired or thrilling somehow and They would that I have pleasant associations with too.
Presenter asks
4:22Who brought you up?
My grandmother, when I was very small, I was born in her house. And my mother remarried when I was three years old.
Presenter asks
5:17When did you start to write seriously?
Well, I suppose when I was twenty one and, you know, away from home I was working in the evenings because I had a full time job in the daytime. And then I learned how to write um these comic books which I could do freelance, meaning I could earn twice as much money as a job, and have twice as much time.
The keepsakes
Presenter asks
9:15Did [Hitchcock's purchase of film rights to 'Strangers on a Train'] make you a lot of money?
That's true. Especially if the book has not had a big sale beforehand. If the book has had a big sale, then even for a first book… raise the price, but certainly I couldn't because the book had only a moderate sale.
Presenter asks
16:40How many drafts do you write?
3. That's your rule. Yes, because I think I don't write very smoothly to begin with, and then I often have to cut.
“I think the reason is when I become uh lost or I get discouraged or something, any kind of music has a beat to it, whether it's classical or pop and it's like another kind of time that you So you get back I get back into a certain ability to to move”
“I made a bad start, um, I think age twenty three on a a novel that I … I never finished it. It became more than three hundred pages long and I stopped it.”
“[Tom Ripley] is popular, I think because of the crazy amusement value.”
“I think nothing of myself as a playwright. But, uh I tried to yes, I tried to write a a play and I fortunately never saw the boards.”
“Yes, I I'm not that um much inclined to solitude.”