Ford is the Pulitzer Prize winning author of eight novels, four story collections, one screenplay, and now a memoir, but of his first foray into rock criticism, he says, "I felt about as capable to write that as I've ever felt about anything".
How could a man capable of writing such layered, intense novels also be capable to writing something so scurrilous and funny that I physically ached whilst reading it?
The adventurer in "Wonderland" is also a harassed New York schoolteacher, Alice (the capable Janet Dacal), who aspires to write children's books.
Capable of inspiring Graham Nash to write the folk-rock hit "Our House" and driving the Manson family to commit murder, the sleepy Los Angeles neighborhood of Laurel Canyon is clearly a very special, karmically confused place.
Generally, the amps and PAs suck but that only matters when you can find capable musicians who are down to write music together or jam, which as you can imagine is not easy.
When you feel that you're capable of writing professionally, think of something you'd like to write about, then start contacting the relevant people.
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Barkan says Michelangelo's notes, which demonstrate his efforts to improve his poetry over the years, show that he was "obsessively capable of moving from writing to drawing and back to writing" and had "a clear penchant for writing whatever pops into his mind".
I feel capable of writing to order on the youth of today, the abominations of TV, Di Giacomo [3], Francesco Jovine [4], the art of the yawn, an ashtray.
Perhaps this is because she suffered her madness in private, whereas Strindberg was perfectly capable of writing to the Stockholm newspapers, insisting that his third wife, Harriet, from whom he was separated, was sending her spirit out at night as a succubus to drain him of creative energy while he slept.
As we're no longer supposed to be capable of authentically altruistic feelings, we're not supposed to be capable of writing about anyone but ourselves.
