ADVICE TO AUTHORS
"NATURAL AND UNASHAMED" MR. JONATHAN CAPE'S VIEWS Mr. Jonathan Capo, of the London publishing house of Jonathan Cape. Limited, said on his arrival in Melbourne lately, that he advised aspiring Australian authors to "be natural and unashamed." Many books of fiction were most unnatural. They were written by persons who apparently should not have turned to fiction as a means of expressing themselves. Why should men and women with the ability to write well imagine that, as a matter of course, they had to turn to fiction to express themselves? "The book of personal experience," Mr. Cape said, "is becoming increasingly popular. But a writer who sets out to produce such a work must forsake what was supposed in the past to ho the proper attitude of humility, and must write about himself unashamedly and naturally. That is the only thing which will make his book vital and readable."
Mr. Capo said New Zealand was an even better market for his firm than Australia. As the firm issued books of general literature of a type that would appeal to the observant reader, he was keen to visit New Zealand to ascertain the reason for the larger sales in the Dominion.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21990, 22 December 1934, Page 12
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