{"id":6508,"date":"2015-05-28T16:56:42","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T23:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6508"},"modified":"2015-06-06T17:45:11","modified_gmt":"2015-06-07T00:45:11","slug":"ignore-the-critics-because-what-do-they-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/05\/28\/ignore-the-critics-because-what-do-they-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Ignore the critics because what do they know?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/hay-festival\/11628972\/10-rules-for-making-it-as-a-writer-by-Dennis-Lehane.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from The Telegraph<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>10 rules for making it as a writer, by Dennis Lehane<\/h1>\n<p>By <a title=\"Anita Singh\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/journalists\/anita-singh\/\" rel=\"author\"> Anita Singh<\/a>, Arts and Entertainment Editor<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.telegraph.co.uk\/multimedia\/archive\/03316\/DennisLehane_3316560b.jpg\" alt=\"Dennis Lehane at Hay Festival 2015\" width=\"480\" height=\"AUTO\" \/><em><span class=\"caption\">Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River, at the 2015 Hay Festival<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"credit\">Photo: Warren Allott<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dennis Lehane is the author of a dozen novels including Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone and Shutter Island. His television credits include seasons of The Wire and Boardwalk Empire. His latest book, World Gone By, is out now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read whatever you can lay your hands on<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We were working class. There were no books. There were some encyclopaedias \u2013 I always say it was the day my father didn\u2019t see the salesman coming. And there was a Bible. I read the Bible from cover to cover when I was a kid. The Bible is an amazing piece of narrative storytelling. Then my mother heard from the nuns \u2013 probably the only nice thing a nun ever said about me \u2013 that I liked to read. So my mother took me to the library. To this day, I&#8217;m a big benefactor of libraries. Without libraries I couldn\u2019t be sitting here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Write out of necessity<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I started writing when I was too poor to go out and entertain myself. I was living in an over-55s community in Florida where my parents had a little house. I was broke and staying at their house. I was 25 and had no money. I said, \u2018I\u2019m going to write to entertain myself.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/hay-festival\/11628972\/10-rules-for-making-it-as-a-writer-by-Dennis-Lehane.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at The Telegraph<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Telegraph 10 rules for making it as a writer, by Dennis Lehane By Anita Singh, Arts and Entertainment Editor Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River, at the 2015 Hay Festival\u00a0Photo: Warren Allott Dennis Lehane is the author of a dozen novels including Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone and Shutter Island. His television credits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}