TRUTH ABOUT TEXAS
"I met cowboys in Texas who could not hit a haystack with a revolver. The best revolver man I met in the States was in New York City," said tho Australian author, Aidan de. Brune,-ih a' lecture to the Fellowship of Australian Writers. Thero was scope and atmosphere in Australia for novek that would leave Texas stories high and dry, he claimed. He told his hearers that they must give the publishers something new and something with a "kick in it from the very first line." "Pretty descriptive writing over the first few, pages is all wrong. You must get your reader by the shoulders in the very first line, ancl push him into the story. "There is.material oh all sides of us for Australian literature. I see it every day." •-••■• '
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19320801.2.103
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 27, 1 August 1932, Page 10
Word Count
134TRUTH ABOUT TEXAS Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 27, 1 August 1932, Page 10
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.