{"id":9692,"date":"2009-11-15T09:42:53","date_gmt":"2009-11-15T14:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=9692"},"modified":"2010-11-13T09:06:38","modified_gmt":"2010-11-13T14:06:38","slug":"cormac-mccarthy-creative-work-is-often-driven-by-pain-it-may-be-that-if-you-dont-have-something-in-the-back-of-your-head-driving-you-nuts-you-may-not-do-anything-its-not-a-good-arrangement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=9692","title":{"rendered":"Cormac McCarthy: \u201cCreative Work Is Often Driven By Pain. It May Be That If You Don\u2019t Have Something In the Back Of Your Head Driving You Nuts, You May Not Do Anything. It\u2019s Not a Good Arrangement. If I Were God, I Wouldn\u2019t Have Done It That Way.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704576204574529703577274572.html\">Fantastic interview with Cormac McCarthy<\/a>.  Too rich to excerpt, just go read the whole thing.  I&#8217;ll just pull this bit out.  He is asked what kind of response he has gotten to <i>The Road<\/i> from fathers:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> I have the same letter from about six different people. One from Australia, one from Germany, one from England, but they all said the same thing. They said, &#8220;I started reading your book after dinner and I finished it 3:45 the next morning, and I got up and went upstairs and I got my kids up and I just sat there in the bed and held them.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fantastic interview with Cormac McCarthy. Too rich to excerpt, just go read the whole thing. I&#8217;ll just pull this bit out. He is asked what kind of response he has gotten to The Road from fathers: I have the same &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=9692\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[93],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9692"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9692"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30011,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9692\/revisions\/30011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}