📑 Rare Thoughts on Writing From Cormac McCarthy in This Unlikely Interview

Cormac McCarthy answers a series of questions provided to him as a part of a student assignment. Through these responses, he reflections upon the notion of inspiration:

I write what is in my head, in my mind. Certainly there are times when what I am writing about corresponds to a place I know well, such as west Texas and Mexico, but sometimes I have a visual image in my head that does not relate to any specific knowledge of a place.

As well as audience when writing:

I’m not writing for a particular audience. The reader in mind is me. If someone else would write these books I could go play golf.