If you ever want to understand multitasking in prose, James Joyce is your man.
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James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can.
Multitasking is a part of my everyday life.
I've realized that I can't multitask in the writing department; I can only kind of do one thing at a time.
The exciting quality about Joyce is that when you read him, you are not told of the large public issues that were agitating the minds of politicians and journalists on those days. Joyce is interested in the mind of a man who has put five shillings on a horse.
'Ulysses' is like a big box of tricks that you can dive into. Each time you read it, you find something new.
The secret to multitasking is that it isn't actually multitasking. It's just extreme focus and organization.
I'm not good at multitasking.
I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels.
As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.
In 'Dublinesque', Spanish writer Enrique Vila-Matas inverts the terms of Joyce's 'Ulysses' and tells the story of a man who, after living a hyperkinetic life like those of Odysseus and Leopold Bloom, resolves to never leave his room again and to reduce his mental activity to a minimum.