Michelle LaVigne, PhD

WRITER
Screenplays, fiction, essays & interviews |
Sometime Actress & Professor |
PhD University of Wales, UK

[Michelle LaVigne, PhD @lavigne_phd]

This interview with the brilliant Paul Holdengraber only took four years!

Waiting for Holdengräber https://t.co/JROLjXv8WO

[Michelle LaVigne, PhD @lavigne_phd]

Carrying books around is a joy ~ give me heavy tomes over ebooks all the time! #read #literature

[Michelle LaVigne, PhD @lavigne_phd]

Wintering & writing... #writinglife

[Michelle LaVigne, PhD @lavigne_phd]

Autumn writing desk where I wrote much of my second novel which is finally finished after three and a half years. I set out to write a rather short book about an ex-pat writer in Paris and have come in under 50k words. #writinglife #desk

[Michelle LaVigne, PhD @lavigne_phd]

I’ve always written by hand. Mostly with a fountain pen...always in notebooks. I have a particular fetish for notebooks with quadrille lines—the little squares.

I think of the notebook as a house for words, as a secret place for thought & self-examination.

~ Paul Auster

[Michelle LaVigne, PhD @lavigne_phd]

Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where it is composed; an architectural one, where it is constructed; and finally, a textile one, where it is woven.

~ Walter Benjamin

{at the Bibliotheque National de France, Paris}
via @laBnF

[Michelle LaVigne, PhD @lavigne_phd]

BRAVO #jamiethomason on a stellar opening for your new #KingOfKings film via @AngelStudiosInc

[Michelle LaVigne, PhD @lavigne_phd]

Novel almost finished & daffodils are blooming... #writing #fiction

[Justin Chang @JustinCChang]

The 19 films just announced in this year's Cannes Film Festival competition:

[Michelle LaVigne, PhD @lavigne_phd]

Am rewriting this screenplay as a novel inside the novel I'm writing...it's 'mise en abyme' delight. #writing

[Michelle LaVigne, PhD @lavigne_phd]

The map is an extraordinary palimpsest to tell you where you have been, where you are at this present moment, and where you could be, and even in subjective tenses, where you might have been, where you could have been.

~ Peter Greenaway

[Michelle LaVigne, PhD @lavigne_phd]

I’m a writer, and everything I write is both a confession and a struggle to understand things about myself and this world in which I live.

~ Arthur Miller
via @__nitch

[Michelle LaVigne, PhD @lavigne_phd]

There's a bit of happiness in simply wanting happiness.

~ #JacquesDemy

Agnès Varda et Jacques Demy, 1965

[Michelle LaVigne, PhD @lavigne_phd]

The essential is constantly threatened by the insignificant.

~ René Char

merci @__nitch

[Michelle LaVigne, PhD @lavigne_phd]

There are places you go, and they say, 'Take off your dark glasses so we can see your beautiful blue eyes'.

~ PAUL NEWMAN
#botd

[Michelle LaVigne, PhD @lavigne_phd]

So loved doing this interview with James Marcus ~ author of the glorious book on #ralphwaldoemerson entitled "Glad to the Brink of Fear".

[James Marcus @jamesamarcus]

So today turns out to be something of a twofer, RWE-wise: first there was Carl Rollyson's excellent review in the New York Sun, and now this equally excellent exchange I had with Michelle Lavigne, which she has posted over on Medium:
https://t.co/MPv2u2sTRg

[The sunny side of Franz Kafka @AmschelKavka]

Monday. I think I shall start to write again; many stories, dearest, are drumming their marching tunes in my head.

Franz Kafka, 1913.

[Michelle LaVigne, PhD @lavigne_phd]

Love this place so much, I wrote a scene in my new novel that's set here.

[Le libraire @robear54]

Un lieu pour lire...

Librairie de la Halle Saint-Pierre, musée consacré à l'art naïf, l'art brut, l'art singulier et l'art outsider à Paris.

[Michelle LaVigne, PhD @lavigne_phd]

February writing desk...nearly done with my Paris novel after nearly 3 years. #editing