Solar Bones

Mike McCormack

2016 • Tramp Press

My guiding principle when I set out to write a book or a story is this: if the book or the story could write itself, what lines, shapes and rhythms would it take on? That’s what I try to do. I try to write the book as if it could birth itself, as if I wasn’t there. I’m actually deeply grateful and indebted to my readers, but I don’t give them any thought when I’m writing the book. The book is the book; just try to body forth the book as it would want itself to be.

— Mike McCormack

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Solar Bones

Mike McCormack

2016 • Tramp Press

My guiding principle when I set out to write a book or a story is this: if the book or the story could write itself, what lines, shapes and rhythms would it take on? That’s what I try to do. I try to write the book as if it could birth itself, as if I wasn’t there. I’m actually deeply grateful and indebted to my readers, but I don’t give them any thought when I’m writing the book. The book is the book; just try to body forth the book as it would want itself to be.