S5 Ep48: Geoff Dyer, non-fiction writer and novelist
In Writing with Hattie Crisell
The Importance of Having an Audience
I've gone from writing one book about one subject in one style to something completely different. I found that I was able to achieve a measure of independence or so I've convinced myself by virtue of a pre history not of success but a failure whereby because the previous books had sold so badly there was such a small audience for them it didn't make a toss to anybody whether I did more of the same at a very low level or did something entirely different. So weirdly I was yeah I just had this sort of freedom that was born out of not having an audience so I was able to do these different things really quite selfishly with only one person in mind namely namely my wife.
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