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What would you ask your favorite author?

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Violanthe

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If you were given the opportunity to sit down and talk with your favorite author, what would you most want to know? What questions would you ask?
 
depends on the author and their books. i'd ask about their books, how they became a writer..basically it varies with the writer. which is why i started a thread boaut contacting authors.
 
Violanthe said:
If you were given the opportunity to sit down and talk with your favorite author, what would you most want to know? What questions would you ask?
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That is such a great question, Violanthe. I'd want to sit for hours with Nabokov. I'd like to talk to him about his wife, Vera.

I think somebody did ask him if he could say how much she contributed to his writing, and his reply was that no, he couldn't. :D

Now, as for Jonathan Franzen, hm, hm, hm ... I wonder if he'd be easy or hard to talk to?
 
depends on the author and their books. i'd ask about their books, how they became a writer..basically it varies with the writer. which is why i started a thread boaut contacting authors.
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Is there any particular writer that you would ask a specific question of? I know you probably have a lot of favorites. But would you ask different questions of some writers but not others?
 
I would probably have a go at them for never replying to fan letters, then attack them over choice of font in their books
 
I would like to walk with him a couple of kms east of Berlin at seelow heights and talk about the actions he describe in his book Berlin Downfall. And the author im talking about is Antony Beevor.
And the place is the last stand before the Russians entered Berlin
 
I'd ask Neil Gaiman to run away with me. No, I'm just kidding.
I'd be too afraid to ask him something that he gets all the time that I could probably find the answer to in someone else's interview. My favorite of his work is The Sandman series and I've already read The Sandman Companion (which is very thorough), so there's nothing more I could ask (that I can think of) that hasn't already been discussed.
I would probably have a go at them for never replying to fan letters, then attack them over choice of font in their books
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Hehe. Funny!

I'd ask Stephen King things about what he did as an 11-year-old. That always seems like the age he chooses for his young characters (It, The Body, Dark Tower...). I'd ask if he had a treehouse (The Body), I don't know, silly things like that.
 
Just at the moment, if I had the total raw courage, I might ask him his reaction to the earlier Lolita-story that has been uncovered with strong similarities to his own. But actually I would probably ask him about memorable moments in his life, or people he has met. Just anything to get him started telling stories, he is such a fabulous story-teller. Perhaps I would ask him what he wished people would ask him about. The time would go too fast!
 
I would ask Guy Gavriel Kay about his evolution as a writer, his favourite authors, and what non-fiction he is currently reading at present. I'd also ask if he would rise to the challenge of writing a story set in medieval Malaya. Nothing like this had ever been done before (though probably for a good reason).

Oh, and could he also write a fantasy story based on Chinese deities and myths, as I think that should be very interesting too.

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If you were given the opportunity to sit down and talk with your favorite author, what would you most want to know? What questions would you ask?
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"Can you sign this Direct Debit mandate please?"
 
I would ask Guy Gavriel Kay about his evolution as a writer, his favourite authors, and what non-fiction he is currently reading at present. I'd also ask if he would rise to the challenge of writing a story set in medieval Malaya.
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Kay is one of my favorites, too. I think he would do that quite well. I hope he'll continue expanding into other medieval cultures.
 
Carl Sagan, to ask if there is an after life. . . .
[end lame joke]

Anyway, I have no idea really. The questions would very much depend on the type of books the author has written, I would not ask J. K. Rowling about nanomachines and the like, but I would ask that of, say, Michael Crichton.
I would just try to have a natural conversation, let the questions come up as it goes along; at least that is the way I would want it.
 
I would ask any author what their favourite books are. I'm always interested in that, just out of curiosity.
 
i once met CJ Cherryh at a booksigning... i listened to all the fan questions, on her books, her writing etc, as i waited for my time, and i watched her eyes glaze over... finally it was my time, and i asked her if she liked Australia, and my city of Sydney most of all - her eyes did not glaze over, and we talked for longer than any others...

i'd never ask any of the regular fan questions.
 
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