I remember ( Jean) Genet talking about Julien Green, he says, Il n’a pas le courage d’être un écrivain (he doesn’t have the courage to be a writer). Q: (Why write at all? You take a tremendous risk (in writing today)). I can’t think of a very clear examples of influence there. He talks more about them, without incorporating their ideas into his writing, it seems to me. WSB: What affect they had on Kerouac’s writing? – Well. Q: Could you tell me what kind of influence people like ( Alfred) Korzybski and ( Oswald) Spengler had on Kerouac’s writing? ) That’s one of Sinclair Lewis‘ pieces of advice to young writers – “Learn to type” – I agree entirely. That is one of the things about the profession. You have to be able to sit hours and hours and hours, years and years and years, at a typewriter (or, well, most, all. just tell me how many books someone has written and I can tell you how long he had to sit at a typewriter. You’ve got to find a balance there because it takes a. [ Editorial note – this Q & A took place, of course, in July of 1982 – Queer was, indeed, subsequently published, bought out by they haven’t got anything to write about. I can do a hell of a lot better now. There wasn’t any point, really, in publishing it. I’m not going to take out my high school themes and publish them. I read it over and I thought it was pretty terrible, so it’s in the archives.I did save it, but I wouldn’t want to publish it. Q: What do you think of your factual novel, Queer…? I don’t know what “love” means – lord knows! Presumably, it’s a sort of mixture between “sex” and “liking” – that’s as close as I can come. Look, artist’s don’t think correspondence to the facts. WSB: Well that’s an either/or proposition that presupposes there’s some line down the middle. A writer is sitting there and he’s looking at a film and he’s trying to get it on paper, that’s what’s happening. Q: You said the other night that you’re seeing in pictures rather than words, how do you conjure up these images that you’re writing about? No, I use the typewriter, just the plainest sort of typewriter. No, I don’t think in composition so much, as in editing. I had a recent experience, that they’re terribly useful in editing. Question: What about the use of a word-processor in your writing? do you use a typewriter? WSB: Well, I think we can now have some questions now.we’ve got about an hour left.I don’t think we need a microphone (sic). A few weeks back, we ran a transcript of the Willam Burroughs talk in 1982 at Naropa on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Jack Kerouac’s On The Road celebrations.
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