JCO: RE: Talent vs Experience

> "...So a woman can certainly write about brave soldiers, even
> though she's not the least bit brave, not at that level. Of
> course, she has to have an immense talent. I've often thought
> that Joyce Carol Oates, who is a very talented woman, will often,
> on the basis of a small bit of experience, write a
> six-hundred-page novel. I think she's an arch example of someone
> who does almost all of it through talent. She's willing to dare
> terrible humiliation. The irony is that she is rarely attacked. I
> expect she arouses a fundamental if somewhat bemused respect in
> many a mean spirit."

Does this strike anyone else as condescending?

I have no idea what, if any, other comments he has made about JCO, but this
seems like saying, "She's got b*lls."
K

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