Quentin Tarantino: Novelist

“Don’t write a novel, a shopping list is better.” Jarvis Cocker, Further Complications

In yesterday’s Toronto Star there was an article about Quentin Tarantino in which the director states his desire to retire from film making and become a novelist when he turns 60. There’s a man who knows what he’s doing. Become famous first, then write a novel and you stand a far better chance of getting published.

At a recent writer’s workshop conducted by Elizabeth Ruth (10 Good Seconds of Silence and Smoke) she related a story about an editor who said her company wouldn’t even look consider a work unless the author already had a platform of 10000. So if 10000 people don’t know your name, take Jarvis’s advice and stick to that shopping list, it’s far more useful.

Read the complete Star article.