If you or I said this, we would be considered bitter, frustrated, bitchy aspiring authors. But thanks to this quote, for one brief moment in time, I am actually a Hugh Grant fan.
“When I’ve finished it, I’ll send it to an editor, anonymously, in order for it to be judged objectively,” Grant says about his in-progress novel. “Because we all know about editors don’t we? I could copy out the Yellow Pages and they would still publish it simply because I’m a celebrity.”
Most interesting of all, the article claims the book is “dark” and “disturbing.” I don’t know how it can be any more disturing than those movies Grant makes.
[via Syntax of Things]
Umm…Hugh Grant was my super-secret, super-shameful celebrity crush already. Now I can come out in the open because of this quote.
First of all, Hugh is a comic genius, kind of like Steve Martin, who also has a novel out. Second, at least he’s not writing a children’s book, which is the usual celeb cop-out. Third, the boy read lit at Oxford, no? Totally qualified to write a novel, I would think…