Kevin Keegan said if he had a blank sheet of paper, five names would be on it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When you see two writers named on a movie, one of them did some drafts and got the boot.
'The New York Times' thing... I think any actor would be thrilled to be profiled in that paper.
My colleague Bill Keegan has written a very short book ('Saving the World?') on an unlikely topic - he is the first economist to try to rehabilitate Gordon Brown.
I printed a list of Irish names from the Internet and my husband, Dave, saw Finley on the list. I really liked it but didn't want to scare Dave off with my enthusiasm. So I used a little reverse psychology and let him think it was his idea.
Writers aren't born properly labeled so it is hard to know one when one appears.
Who would name their kid Jack with the last words 'off' at the end of the last name? No wonder that guy is screwed up.
I think with every writer there are two people there.
Being the first to do something like this also registers a lot of attention that the line might not have gotten if all four books had just appeared from one company.
In both 'Tigerman' and my first book, 'The Gone-Away World,' there are characters who never really get names. They're too fundamentally who they are to be bound by a name, so I couldn't give them one.
Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.