This from Garrison Keillor on the Writer’s Almanac for March 6, 2019.
Writing about the birthday of the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Gabriel García Márquez,
He worked for a newspaper in Bogotá for many years, writing at least three stories a week, as well as movie reviews and several editorial notes each week. Then, when everyone had gone home for the day, he would stay in the newsroom and write his fiction. He said, “I liked the noise of the Linotype machines, which sounded like rain. If they stopped, and I was left in silence, I wouldn’t be able to work.”
I can attest, falling Linotype lead does sound a bit like rain — industrial strength rain!
Read the Writer’s Almanac piece about Gabriel García Márquez.
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