Chet Atkins plays Francisco Tárrega’s “Recuerdos de la Alhambra” at a 1972 concert in Boston:
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Almanac: Louis Auchincloss on writing while holding down a day job
“Lots of writers have to have whole days or nights to get ready to write; they like to be by a fire, with absolute quiet, with their slippers on and a pipe or something, and then they’re ready to go. They can’t believe you can use five minutes here, ten minutes there, fifteen minutes at another time. Yet it’s only a question of training to learn that trick. If they had to do it that way, they’d be able to—the real writers, that is. I can pick up in the middle of a sentence and then go on. I wrote at night; sometimes I wrote at the office and then practiced law at home. My wife and I never went away on weekends. I wouldn’t recommend that anyone else try this method, but it worked for me.”
Louis Auchincloss, Paris Review interview (Fall 1994)