'It’s not about whether you have an interesting story; it’s about whether you know how to tell it.'
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WURTZEL: I think so. It always surprises me when people who are in my books tell me that I got it right, although the interesting thing is that even a memoir is a construct. Memory is a construct.WURTZEL: The idea that somehow there’s something different about writing a memoir than writing fiction is crazy—it’s the same thing. You’re constructing a narrative. It’s not like I couldn’t write a novel if that’s what I was inclined to do.
PHAIR: It seems like throughout all of the stuff you went through—and you went through a considerable amount of stuff—writing was never the problem. You were always able to write. WURTZEL: When I was in my 20s, I did one idiotic thing after another. And I no longer do one idiotic thing after another.WURTZEL: But the other side of that phase, as you said, was being touchable, so to speak. I keep thinking I’m about to re-enter that phase, or some other version of it. WURTZEL: No, I just assume we’re always heading in that direction.
PHAIR: It’s interesting that you stuck to your guns in the face of a lot of resistance to telling your story, which ultimately turned out to be cutting edge. WURTZEL: I learned how to write from listening to music. Not that I didn’t like to read, because I did, but what got me through the hard times was listening to music. And it was really important to me that my writing be to others what music was to me—that it had that kind of intensity and power. Forget about the first page, it’s the first word. For me, every word has to be something that people are like, “Oh, my god, I can’t stop. I’m sucked in.
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