I do read everything that we publish. We usually have to have two or three votes for a book before we take it on. So in that sense I suppose it is an orchestra.
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Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.
Why write for the orchestra? For one thing it's a very challenging problem.
I currently spend a lot of time thinking about orchestration and every detail of a piece.
To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.
As for what I listen to after writing, it could be anything - but I've noticed that if the current book contains music from one tradition, it is music from another tradition that most relaxes me.
There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.
There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books.
I don't play any instruments, but I do read a lot.
Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
I had a musician friend once tell me that it's not in the orchestra that you get the true test of the musicians but in the little trios and quintets where you really get to see if they've got the stuff. And the composer.
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