The Literary Marketplace single work   essay  
Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 The Literary Marketplace
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'In terms of the literary marketplace, my own practice has always been to write the story first, and then to look for a suitable place for publication afterwards. I have never written fiction with a particular magazine or publisher in mind. I have always believed that the writing has its own demands, that the work has to take its own direction and shape and not be deformed by commercial pressures. There are pressures enough without inviting more. Inevitably when we write we are influenced by the context of the society, inevitably there are dangers of shaping the work to conform to the acceptable, inevitably there are the dangers of self-censorship. Once you write for the market you have surrendered unconditionally to those pressures.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Wild about Books : Essays on Books and Writing Michael Wilding , Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing , 2019 17393108 2019 selected work essay

    'Wild About Books – essays on books and writing, about reading them and writing them, and publishing them and collecting them and preserving them in libraries. Essays about the shared experience of literature, the art and craft of writing, the pleasures of reading, the survival of five hundred years of print culture, together with reflections and suggestions on creative writing, on what to do, and how to do it, and on what I’ve done, and why I wrote this book and how I wrote that one, together with anecdotes from other writers’ experiences, from writers in person, and from the books they have written.'

    Source: Publisher's blurb.

    Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing , 2019
    pg. 25-26
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