And when he says that the literary process ends with the reader, I wonder.
In 1970, Crews published an anthology of essays promoting psychoanalytic criticism, "Psychoanalysis and Literary Process".
But I haven't found my friendships with other writers to be especially revelatory about the literary process.
I wanted to ask Canseco about his literary process, but he said, through his manager, that he would speak with me only if I paid for the privilege.
Any "madness" in the literary process is more appropriately assigned to the act and experience of reading, than to that of creating.
The netherworld she inhabits during that time is a paradigm of Barrie's literary process, which he called "playing hide-and-seek with angels": a sort of heavenly place that "kills time" and in which the unreal becomes real.
Compiling this Guardian/Observer list of 100 great novels in the English language, and rediscovering old favourites from week to week, has become as much an autobiographical as a literary process.
In recent years, many commentators (myself included) have had hours of fun denouncing the Booker Prize for its irrelevance to the literary process, for its incompetence and its fundamental philistinism.
Russian poetry, notwithstanding the civic verse of Nikolay Nekrasov and the subtle lyrics of Afanasy Fet, had not played a central role in the literary process since the 1830s, and drama, despite the able work of Aleksandr Ostrovsky, was a marginal literary activity for most writers.
Sadly, no literary process can ever cure any of these ills and so the demands can and will continue until the writer does the only thing the writer can do – he or she withdraws, accepts that vast effort has been wasted, that the struggle has been in vain and that the script, text, article, limerick is now a dog's breakfast that cannot be saved, and nothing anyone would wish to bear their name.
