Writing Home (1988)
Writing Home
“I don’t write it up every day and often not for weeks at a time; I am most conscientious about it when I’m busy writing something else, so that as a rule when work is going well (or at any rate going) the diary goes well too. If there are problems with rehearsals, say, or filming, the diary gets the complaints, but this querulous litany makes for dull and (on my part) somewhat shamefaced reading. So that side of things doesn’t figure much in these extracts, or in the rehearsal or location diari...es which are reprinted here.
My diaries are written on loose-leaf sheets – sometimes typed, sometimes in longhand – and a year’s entries make a pretty untidy bundle. The writing is often untidy too; immediacy in my case doesn’t make for vivid reporting, which is why I’ve not had any scruples about improving and editing, though I’ve never altered the tone or the sentiments of what I’ve written at the time.
Most of these diaries were originally published in the London Review of Books, where for reasons of space they had to be compressed, the extracts run together and the gaps between eliminated.MoreLess
My diaries are written on loose-leaf sheets – sometimes typed, sometimes in longhand – and a year’s entries make a pretty untidy bundle. The writing is often untidy too; immediacy in my case doesn’t make for vivid reporting, which is why I’ve not had any scruples about improving and editing, though I’ve never altered the tone or the sentiments of what I’ve written at the time.
Most of these diaries were originally published in the London Review of Books, where for reasons of space they had to be compressed, the extracts run together and the gaps between eliminated.MoreLess
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