Found this mp3 featuring Henry Miller talking about writing and the writer. [Download the 10.3MB Mp3 here]

Miller talks about starting to write out of desperation because he wasn’t good at anything else. He started late - an interviewer interjects with ‘that is so encouraging’ and he replies that ‘there is no age or time. The time is when you realise that it is time, the time is not when but if you are ready.’ He talks about spending ten years writing and having nothing to show for it - and being thankful that none of the early stuff was published because it was so bad. He talks about writing 5,000 to 7,000 words a day and says that he thought that for a man to be a writer he had to say everything, all at once, in one book, and collapse after it.’

He says that ‘one must write and write and write.’